Investigation of Age Polyethism in Food Processing of the Fungus-Growing Termite Odontotermes formosanus (Blattodea: Termitidae) Using a Laboratory Artificial …

H Li, M Yang, Y Chen, N Zhu, CY Lee… - Journal of economic …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
study, which applied our artificial rearing system in the laboratory to study the age-related
polyethism in food processing … system was reliable in social behavior studies. Moreover, the …

Age polyethism drives community structure of the bacterial gut microbiota in the fungus‐cultivating termite Odontotermes formosanus

H Li, C Dietrich, N Zhu, A Mikaelyan… - Environmental …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
study, using pyrotag sequencing and electron microscopy, we analysed the bacterial microbiota
in the hindgut of Odontotermes … is the fungus-growing subfamily Macrotermitinae. They …

[PDF][PDF] Polyethism in Odontotermes formosanus Shiraki

ESBZ Ji, SWLJJ Yang, HJWF Ding - Int J Biol Med Res, 2014 - Citeseer
… This research has shown that duties are somehow divided in … keep the termite in a hole that
was made to put the termite inside … width size, age also can play a key role in polyethism in O.…

Polyethism in food processing and social organisation in the nest of Macrotermes bellicosus (Isoptera, Termitidae)

B Hinze, K Crailsheim, RH Leuthold - Insectes sociaux, 2002 - Springer
… Morphological, microbiological and biochemical studies of the gut flora in the fungus-growing
termiteAge related polyethism and activity rhythms in the nest of the termite Macrotermes …

The fungus-growing termites: biology, damage on tropical crops and specific management

M Diouf, C Rouland-Lefevre - Termites and Sustainable Management …, 2018 - Springer
… , there is an age-dependent polyethism in the worker caste of … , some studies performed on
some lower termites have … In species of Macrotermes and Odontotermes, the fungus comb is …

Termite biology and social behaviour

A Pervez - Termites and Sustainable Management: Volume 1 …, 2018 - Springer
… that age plays an important and decisive role in polyethism, … The use of terminologies in
termite research has generated a … Some species of termite are fungus growing and maintain a …

Fungus-growing termites: an eco-evolutionary perspective

J Korb - 2022 - direct.mit.edu
… tools to investigate arthropod food webs. Such … fungus- growing termites have horizontal
transmission. Termitomyces produces its sexual fruiting bodies (mushrooms) outside the termite

[PDF][PDF] Temporal Polyethism of Different Aged Individuals in the Worker Line of the Lower Termite Reticulitermesfukienensis

WTC Richard - 1998 - core.ac.uk
… Following is a review about the age-based polyethism in various behavior and … the study of
temporal polyethism of the workers in termites, evidence for temporal polyethism of termites is …

The longevity of colonies of fungus-growing termites and the stability of the symbiosis

M Wisselink, DK Aanen, A van't Padje - Insects, 2020 - mdpi.com
… degradation, and the production of asexual fruiting bodies for … The termite colony can reach
an age of up to several decades, … study, it was not possible to determine whether the termite

Male/Female (Size) Polyethism in Workers of Odontotermes distans Holmgren and Holmgren (Isoptera: Termitidae: Macrotermitinae)

EA McMahan, S Kumar… - Annals of the …, 1984 - academic.oup.com
Odontotermes distans is a fungus-growing termite widely … among the various kinds of termites
whose different behaviors … We have seen no previously reported studies of polyethism in …