Insect societies face many social parasites that exploit their altruistic behaviours or their
resources. Due to the fitness costs these social parasites incur, hosts have evolved various …

Fungus‐growing termites are among the most successful herbivorous animals and improve
crop productivity and soil fertility. A range of symbiotic organisms can be found inside their …

Termite nests are often secondarily inhabited by other termite species (= inquilines) that
cohabit with the host. To understand this association, we studied the trail-following …

Highlights•Do termite inquilines detect their host's alarm cues?•We tested hosts' vs
inquilines' responses to conspecific/heterospecific alarm cues.•Inquilines, but not hosts …

How do termite inquilines manage to cohabit termitaria along with the termite builder
species? With this in mind, we analysed one of the several strategies that inquilines could …

In addition to its builders, termite nests are known to house a variety of secondary
opportunistic termite species so‐called inquilines, but little is known about the mechanisms …

Nests of the termite Constrictotermes sp. can be cohabited by obligatory inquilines
Inquilinitermes sp. Recent studies have shown that inquilines establish themselves in …

1. Termitophily in some rove beetles is commonly attributed to the striking termite worker
resemblance that is provided by the beetles' hypertrophic ('physogastric') abdomen …

Symbiosis, the living‐together of unlike organisms, underlies every major transition in
evolution and pervades most ecological dynamics. Among examples of symbioses, the …

Inter-specific symbiotic links are often reinforced by morphological, physiological, or
behavioural trait modification undergone by the associated species. In some cases, such as …