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Biology of Termites, a Modern Synthesis brings together the major advances in termite biology, phylogenetics, social evolution and biogeography. In this new volume, David Bignell, Yves Roisin and Nathan Lo have brought together leading experts on termite taxonomy, behaviour, genetics, caste differentiation, physiology, microbiology, mound architecture, biogeography and control. Very strong evolutionary and developmental themes run through the individual chapters, fed by new data streams from molecular sequencing, and for the first time it is possible to compare the social organisation of termites with that of the social Hymenoptera, focusing on caste determination, population genetics, cooperative behaviour, nest hygiene and symbioses with microorganisms. New chapters have been added on termite pheromones, termites as pests of agriculture and on destructive invasive species.
Up to 1965, termite literature was covered by T.E. Synder's bibliographies produced by the Smithsoniam Institution but since his death these have ceased and there has been no one source of information for termitologists. This has now been remedied by Termite Abstracts, which begun publication in 1980. The present book links the missing years 1966 - 1978, and contains 3 165 entries covering termite biology, control, distribution and taxonomy. The references are annotated and abstracted to provide as complete a source of information as possible for scientists working overseas, without access to good libraries. Termites cause such damage to crops that the book will not only be of use to specialistentomologists, but also crop protection and forestry specialists, plant quarantine inspectors and building research technologists.
The book is a new compendium in which leading termite scientists review the advances of the last 30 years in our understanding of phylogeny, fossil records, relationships with cockroaches, social evolution, nesting, behaviour, mutualisms with archaea, protists, bacteria and fungi, nutrition, energy metabolism,population and community ecology, soil conditioning, greenhouse gas production and pest status.