Termites: Asexual Succession Strategy
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 13:31
in Biology & Nature
A study led by the Laboratory Evolutionary Biology and Ecology of the Universite libre de Bruxelles published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, shows that the humivorous French Guianan termite Cavitermes tuberosus routinely practice asexual queen succession (parthenogenesis).