Termites
Subtitle: evolution, sociality, symbioses, ecology
By: edited by Takuya Abe, David Edward Bignell, and Masahiko Higashi.
Contributors: Abe, Takuya, 1945-; Bignell, David Edward.; Higashi, M.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Dordrecht; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 466
Subjects: Termites
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Taxonomy and phylogeny of termites / Srinivas Kambhampati, Paul Eggleton; title: Global patterns of termite diversity / Paul Eggleton; title: Characterizing the ancestors: paedomorphosis and termite evolution / Christine A. Nalepa, Claudio Bandi; title: Early fossil history of the termites / Barbara L. Thorne, David A. Grimaldi, Kumar Krishna; title: Diversity and evolution of caste patterns / Yves Roisin; title: Termite nests: architecture, regulation and defence / Charles Noirot, Johanna P.E.C. Darlington; title: Behavior and ecology of foraging in termites / James F.A. Traniello, Reinhard H. Leuthold; title: Theories on the sociality of termites / Masahiko Higashi, Norio Yamamura, Takuya Abe; title: Introduction to symbiosis / David E. Bignell; title: Ecology of prokaryotic microbes in the guts of wood- and letter-feeding termites / John A. Breznak; title: Soil-feeding termites: biology, microbial associations and digestive mechanisms / Alain Brauman, David E. Bignell, Ichiro Tayasu; title: Intracellular symbiosis in termites / Claudio Bandi, Luciano Sacchi; title: Symbiotic associations with protists / Tetsushi Inoue, Osamu Kitade, Tsuyoshi Yoshimura; title: Symbiosis with fungi / Corinne Rouland-Lefèvre; title: Energy metabolism in the termite and its gut microbiota / Michael Slaytor; title: Population dynamics of termites / Michel Lepage, Johanna P.E.C. Darlington; title: Termites in ecosystems / David E. Bignell, Paul Eggleton; title: Termites and soil properties / John A. Holt, Michel Lepage; title: Global impact of termites on the carbon cycle and atmospheric trace gases / Atsuko Sugimoto, David E. Bignell, Jannette A. MacDonald; title: Termites as pests of buildings / Nan-Yao Su, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn.