The origins and radiation of Australian Coptotermes termites: from rainforest to desert dwellers.
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Summary
The ancestral state reconstruction analysis indicated that the ancestral Australian Coptotermes was likely to have been a tree nester, and that mound-building behaviour has arisen multiple times, which plausibly matches with the narrowing of the Arafura Sea allowing Asian taxa to cross into Australia.
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- article
- Published
- 2015-01-01
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- 31
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- 42
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Keywords
Coptotermes, Biology, Rhinotermitidae, Monophyly, Genus
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