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SUBMITTER: Fougeyrollas R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4590441 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fougeyrollas Romain R Dolejšová Klára K Sillam-Dussès David D Roy Virginie V Poteaux Chantal C Hanus Robert R Roisin Yves Y
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20150601 1809
Asexual queen succession (AQS), in which workers, soldiers and dispersing reproductives are produced sexually while numerous non-dispersing queens arise through thelytokous parthenogenesis, has recently been described in three species of lower termites of the genus Reticulitermes. Here, we show that AQS is not an oddity restricted to a single genus of lower termites, but a more widespread strategy occurring also in the most advanced termite group, the higher termites (Termitidae). We analysed th ...[more]