Sex ratio biases in termites provide evidence for kin selection

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• Publication year

  2013

• Venue

  Nature Communications

• Publication date

  2013-06-28

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/ncomms3048PMID 23807025
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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