not only soldiers have weapons evolution of the frontal gland in imagoes of the termite families rhinotermitidae and serritermitidae不仅士兵的武器进化成额腺的白蚁家庭鼻白蚁科和毛白蚁科.pdfVIP

Not Only Soldiers Have Weapons: Evolution of the Frontal Gland in Imagoes of the Termite Families Rhinotermitidae and Serritermitidae ˇ ´ 1. 2. 1 ` 1 ´ 3 Jan Sobotnık , Thomas Bourguignon , Robert Hanus *, David Sillam-Dusses , Jitka Pflegerova , ˇ 3 ˇ ´ 1,4 ´ 5 2 Frantisek Weyda , Katerina Kutalova , Blahoslava Vytiskova , Yves Roisin 1 Research Team of Infochemicals, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, 2 Evolutionary Biology and ´ Ecology, CP 160/12, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 3 Department of Physiology, Institute of Entomology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, ˇ ´ ˇ Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic, 4 Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic, 5 University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Department of Forest Protection and Game Management, Prague, Czech Republic Abstract Background: The frontal gland is a unique adaptation of advanced termite families. It has been intensively studied in soldiers with respect to its anatomy and chemistry, with numerous novel compounds being discovered within the tremendous richness of identified products. At the same time, the presence of the frontal gland in non-soldier castes received only negligible attention in the past. Pri