On the origin of termite workers: weighing up the phylogenetic evidence

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Journal of Evolutionary Biology

• Publication date

  2003-11-25

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2003.00645.xPMID 15000664
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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