The rapid mandible strike of a termite soldier.

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Current Biology

• Publication date

  2008-11-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2008.09.033PMID 19036330
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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