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The Antibacterial Protein Lysozyme Identified as the Termite Egg Recognition Pheromone

Social insects rely heavily on pheromone communication to maintain their sociality. Egg protection is one of the most fundamental social behaviours in social insects. The recent discovery of the termite-egg mimicking fungus ‘termite-ball’ and subsequent studies on termite egg protection behaviour ha...

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Main Authors: Matsuura, Kenji, Tamura, Takashi, Kobayashi, Norimasa, Yashiro, Toshihisa, Tatsumi, Shingo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2007
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950569/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17726543
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0000813
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