An Introduction to Termites: Biology, Taxonomy and Functional Morphology

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Characterization and Identification of Cellulolytic Bacteria from gut of Worker Macrotermes gilvus (2015, background): “Queen's job is to produce and lay eggs, soldier's job is to guard the colony, and worker's jobs are to nurse, repair the colony, and food gathering (Eggleton 2011).”
Origin of termite eusociality: trophallaxis integrates the social, nutritional, and microbial environments (2015, background): “They had become a physiological unit, and death became inevitable for an individual separated from the colony (Eggleton, 2011).”