Termites are a clade of eusocial wood-feeding roaches with> 3000 described species.
Eusociality emerged~ 150 million years ago in the ancestor of modern termites, which, since …

The symbiosis between termites and their hindgut protists is mutually obligate and vertically
inherited. It was established by the late Jurassic in the cockroach ancestors of termites as …

Native to eastern Asia, the Formosan subterranean termite Coptotermes formosanus
(Shiraki) is recognized as one of the 100 worst invasive pests in the world, with established …

A eusocial insect colony represents a complex biological entity that must ensure degrees of
perennity once it reaches maturity (production of dispersing imagoes over many successive …

Reticulitermes, Heterotermes and Coptotermes form a small termite clade with partly
overlapping distributions. Although native species occur across all continents, the factors …

Mutualistic associations between insects and microorganisms must imply gains for both
partners, and the emphasis has mostly focused on coevolved host–symbiont systems …

Insect spermathecae play a crucial role in sperm storage and maintenance prior to egg
fertilization. Within eusocial insects, this structure is well studied in the Hymenoptera, whose …

In collective animal motion, coordination is often achieved by feedback between leaders and
followers. For stable coordination, a leader's signals and a follower's responses are …

The dispersal flight activity (“swarming”) of two invasive subterranean termite species,
Coptotermes gestroi (Wasmann) and Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki, was monitored in …

Termites are generally deficient in pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH), which links glycolysis to
the Krebs cycle; however, one termite species, Coptotermes formosanus, has some PDH …