BIOLOGY OF TERMITES

By Y. MADAY

CONTENTS AN INTRODUCTION TO TERMITES: BIOLOGY, TAXONOMY AND FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY TERMITE PHYLOGENETICS AND CO-CLADOGENESIS WITH SYMBIONTS EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF ENDOGENOUS TERMITE CELLULASES ALTRICIAL DEVELOPMENT IN WOOD-FEEDING COCKROACHES: THE KEY ANTECEDENT OF TERMITE EUSOCIALITY EUSOCIAL EVOLUTION IN TERMITES AND HYMENOPTERA SOCIAL ORGANISATION AND THE STATUS OF WORKERS IN TERMITES ECOLOGY, BEHAVIOR AND EVOLUTION OF DISEASE RESISTANCE IN TERMITES COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY OF FUNGUS CULTIVATION IN TERMITES AND ANTS MOLECULAR BASIS UNDERLYING CASTE DIFFERENTIATION IN TERMITES SEXUAL AND ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN TERMITES PHEROMONES AND CHEMICAL ECOLOGY OF DISPERSAL AND FORAGING IN TERMITES GENETIC STRUCTURE OF TERMITE COLONIES AND POPULATIONS TERMITE MOUND ARCHITECTURE, FROM FUNCTION TO CONSTRUCTION MORPHOLOGY, PHYSIOLOGY, BIOCHEMISTRY AND FUNCTIONAL DESIGN OF THE TERMITE GUT: AN EVOLUTIONARY WONDERLAND DIVERSITY, STRUCTURE, AND EVOLUTION OF THE TERMITE GUT MICROBIAL COMMUNITY ROLE OF THE TERMITE GUT MICROBIOTA IN SYMBIOTIC DIGESTION GLOBAL BIOGEOGRAPHY OF TERMITES: A COMPILATION OF SOURCES TERMITES AS PESTS OF AGRICULTURE INVASIVE TERMITES