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Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University: Onna, Okinawa, JP

2017-05 to present
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Thomas Bourguignon

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague: Prague, CZ

2014-02 to present | Adjunct Researcher
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Thomas Bourguignon

University of Sydney: Sydney, NSW, AU

2015-05 to 2017-04
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Thomas Bourguignon

National University of Singapore: Singapore, SG

2012-11 to 2015-04
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Thomas Bourguignon

Hokkaido University: Sapporo, JP

2010-10 to 2012-10
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Université Libre de Bruxelles: Brussels, BE

2006-10 to 2010-05 | Ph.D.
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Towards a universal understanding of sex ratio in termites

Communications Biology
2025-03-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-07771-z
Contributors: Simon Hellemans; Thomas Bourguignon; Yves Roisin
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Exploration and generation of cell transcriptomes over deep evolutionary time

2025-02-19 | Preprint
DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.19.639005
Contributors: Ying Xu; Catherine Gatt; Esra Kaymak; Kensei Kikuchi; Thomas Bourguignon; Fabio Zanini
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Obtusitermes monomorphus, a new termite species (Isoptera: Termitidae: Nasutitermitinae) from Panama

Zootaxa
2025-02-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5583.3.9
Contributors: RUDOLF H. SCHEFFRAHN; YVES ROISIN; MENGLIN WANG; THOMAS BOURGUIGNON; SIMON HELLEMANS
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Termites and subsocial roaches inherited many bacterial-borne carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) from their common ancestor

Communications Biology
2024-11-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-024-07146-w
Contributors: Tereza Beránková; Jigyasa Arora; Johanna Romero Arias; Aleš Buček; Gaku Tokuda; Jan Šobotník; Simon Hellemans; Thomas Bourguignon
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Evolutionary history of soil-feeding Neotropical termites reveals recent divergences linked to geologic-climatic influences

Insect Systematics and Diversity
2024-11-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixae043
Contributors: Damien Gergonne; Virginie Roy; Chantal Poteaux; Simon Hellemans; Thomas Bourguignon; Romain Fougeyrollas; Robert Hanus; Yves Roisin; Carlos Daniel Vecco-Giove; Agustín Cerna-Mendoza et al.
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Crystal structure of blue laccase BP76, a unique termite suicidal defense weapon

Structure
2024-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2024.07.015
Part of ISSN: 0969-2126
Contributors: Jana Skerlova; Jiří Brynda; Jan Šobotník; Marek Zákopčaník; Petr Novák; Thomas Bourguignon; David Sillam-Dussès; Pavlina Rezacova
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Thomas Bourguignon

How inquilinism shaped breeding systems in a termite host‐inquiline relationship

Molecular Ecology
2024-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/mec.17494
Contributors: Johanne Timmermans; Simon Hellemans; Jan Křivánek; Esra Kaymak; Nicolas Fontaine; Thomas Bourguignon; Robert Hanus; Yves Roisin
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Dating in the Dark: Elevated Substitution Rates in Cave Cockroaches (Blattodea: Nocticolidae) Have Negative Impacts on Molecular Date Estimates

Systematic Biology
2024-09-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syae002
Contributors: Toby G L Kovacs; James Walker; Simon Hellemans; Thomas Bourguignon; Nikolai J Tatarnic; Jane M McRae; Simon Y W Ho; Nathan Lo; Michael Alfaro
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Genomic data provide insights into the classification of extant termites

Nature Communications
2024-08-07 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-51028-y
Part of ISSN: 2041-1723
Contributors: Simon Hellemans; Mauricio Rocha; Menglin Wang; Johanna Romero Arias; Duur Aanen; Anne-Geneviève Bagnères; Ales Bucek; Tiago Carrijo; Thomas Chouvenc; Carolina Cuezzo et al.
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Thomas Bourguignon

Pervasive relaxed selection in termite genomes

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2024-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.2439
Contributors: Kyle M. Ewart; Simon Y. W. Ho; Al-Aabid Chowdhury; Frederick R. Jaya; Yukihiro Kinjo; Juno Bennett; Thomas Bourguignon; Harley A. Rose; Nathan Lo
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Solving the 250-year-old mystery of the origin and global spread of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-05-28 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2401185121
Contributors: Qian Tang; Edward L. Vargo; Intan Ahmad; Hong Jiang; Zuzana Kotyková Varadínová; Pilot Dovih; Dongmin Kim; Thomas Bourguignon; Warren Booth; Coby Schal et al.
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Extinct and extant termites reveal the fidelity of behavior fossilization in amber

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-03-19 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308922121
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Part of ISSN: 1091-6490
Contributors: Nobuaki Mizumoto; Simon Hellemans; Michael S. Engel; Thomas Bourguignon; Aleš Buček
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Thomas Bourguignon

Shrinking in the dark: Parallel endosymbiont genome erosions are associated with repeated host transitions to an underground life

Insect Science
2024-03-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.13339
Part of ISSN: 1672-9609
Part of ISSN: 1744-7917
Contributors: Perry G. Beasley-Hall; Yukihiro Kinjo; Harley A. Rose; James Walker; Charles S. P. Foster; Toby G. L. Kovacs; Thomas Bourguignon; Simon Y. W. Ho; Nathan Lo
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Thomas Bourguignon

Mitochondrial phylogenetics position a new Afrotropical termite species into its own subfamily, the Engelitermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae)

Systematic Entomology
2024-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12607
Contributors: Johanna Romero Arias; Simon Hellemans; Esra Kaymak; Pierre D. Akama; Thomas Bourguignon; Yves Roisin; Rudolf H. Scheffrahn; Jan Šobotník
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Neoisoptera repeatedly colonised Madagascar after the Middle Miocene climatic optimum

Ecography
2023-07 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/ecog.06463
Part of ISSN: 0906-7590
Part of ISSN: 1600-0587
Contributors: menglin wang; Simon Hellemans; Ales Bucek; Taisuke Kanao; Jigyasa Arora; Crystal Clitheroe; Jean‐Jacques Rafanomezantsoa; Brian L. Fisher; Rudolf Scheffrahn; David Sillam-Dussès et al.
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Thomas Bourguignon

Phylogenetic analysis of Blaberoidea reveals non‐monophyly of taxa and supports the creation of multiple new subfamilies

Cladistics
2023-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/cla.12535
Part of ISSN: 0748-3007
Part of ISSN: 1096-0031
Contributors: Yi‐Shu Wang; Jia‐Wei Zhang; Nathan Lo; Thomas Bourguignon; Lin Guo; Bian‐Lun Li; Yan‐Li Che; Zong‐Qing Wang
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Thomas Bourguignon

Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2023-06-28 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2023.0619
Part of ISSN: 0962-8452
Part of ISSN: 1471-2954
Contributors: Jigyasa Arora; Ales Bucek; Simon Hellemans; Tereza Beránková; Johanna Romero Arias; Brian L. Fisher; Crystal Clitheroe; Andreas Brune; Yukihiro Kinjo; Jan Šobotník et al.
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Thomas Bourguignon

Diminishing the taxonomic gap in the neotropical soldierless termites: descriptions of four new genera and a new Anoplotermes species (Isoptera, Termitidae, Apicotermitinae)

ZooKeys
2023-06-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1167.100001
Contributors: Tiago F. Carrijo; Daniel Castro; Menglin Wang; Joice P. Constantini; Thomas Bourguignon; Eliana M. Cancello; Yves Roisin; Rudolf H. Scheffrahn
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Impact of Wood Age on Termite Microbial Assemblages

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2023-05-31 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/aem.00361-23
Part of ISSN: 0099-2240
Part of ISSN: 1098-5336
Contributors: Amrita Chakraborty; Jan Šobotník; Kateřina Votýpková; Jaromír Hradecký; Petr Stiblik; Jiří Synek; Thomas Bourguignon; Petr Baldrian; Michael S. Engel; Vojtěch Novotný et al.
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Light alters activity but does not disturb tandem coordination of termite mating pairs

Ecological Entomology
2023-04 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/een.13209
Contributors: Nobuaki Mizumoto; Thomas Bourguignon
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Alarm communication predates eusociality in termites

Communications Biology
2023-01-21 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-04438-5
Part of ISSN: 2399-3642
Contributors: David Sillam-Dussès; Vojtěch Jandák; Petr Stiblik; Olivier Delattre; Thomas Chouvenc; Ondřej Balvín; Josef Cvačka; Delphine Soulet; Jiří Synek; Marek Brothánek et al.
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Thomas Bourguignon

The functional evolution of termite gut microbiota

Microbiome
2022-12 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1186/s40168-022-01258-3
Part of ISSN: 2049-2618
Contributors: Jigyasa Arora; Yukihiro Kinjo; Jan Šobotník; Ales Bucek; Crystal-Leigh Clitheroe; Petr Stiblik; Yves Roisin; Lucia Žifčáková; Yung Chul Park; Ki Yoon Kim et al.
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Thomas Bourguignon

Ancestral sex-role plasticity facilitates the evolution of same-sex sexual behavior

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2022-11-15 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2212401119
Part of ISSN: 0027-8424
Part of ISSN: 1091-6490
Contributors: Nobuaki Mizumoto; Thomas Bourguignon; Nathan W. Bailey
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Thomas Bourguignon

Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of Teletisoptera (Blattaria: Isoptera)

Systematic Entomology
2022-10 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12548
Part of ISSN: 0307-6970
Part of ISSN: 1365-3113
Contributors: Menglin Wang; Simon Hellemans; Jan Šobotník; Jigyasa Arora; Aleš Buček; David Sillam‐Dussès; Crystal Clitheroe; Tomer Lu; Nathan Lo; Michael S. Engel et al.
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Thomas Bourguignon

Coevolution of Metabolic Pathways in Blattodea and Their Blattabacterium Endosymbionts, and Comparisons with Other Insect-Bacteria Symbioses

Microbiology Spectrum
2022-10-26 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02779-22
Contributors: Yukihiro Kinjo; Thomas Bourguignon; Yuichi Hongoh; Nathan Lo; Gaku Tokuda; Moriya Ohkuma; Konstantinos Aristomenis Kormas
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Using ultraconserved elements to reconstruct the termite tree of life

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2022-08 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107520
Part of ISSN: 1055-7903
Contributors: Simon Hellemans; Menglin Wang; Nonno Hasegawa; Jan Šobotník; Rudolf H. Scheffrahn; Thomas Bourguignon
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Termite nest evolution fostered social parasitism by termitophilous rove beetles

Evolution
2022-05 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/evo.14457
Contributors: Nobuaki Mizumoto; Thomas Bourguignon; Taisuke Kanao
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Termite dispersal is influenced by their diet

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-05-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0246
Contributors: Simon Hellemans; Jan Šobotník; Gilles Lepoint; Martin Mihaljevič; Yves Roisin; Thomas Bourguignon
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Molecular Phylogeny Reveals the Past Transoceanic Voyages of Drywood Termites (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae)

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2022-05-03 | Journal article | Author
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac093
Part of ISSN: 0737-4038
Part of ISSN: 1537-1719
Contributors: Ales Bucek; menglin wang; Jan Šobotník; Simon Hellemans; David Sillam-Dussès; Nobuaki Mizumoto; Petr Stiblik; Crystal-Leigh Clitheroe; Tomer Lu; Juan Jose Gonzalez Plaza et al.
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Thomas Bourguignon

The ultrastructure of the intramandibular gland in soldiers of the termite Machadotermes rigidus (Blattodea: Termitidae: Apicotermitinae)

Arthropod Structure & Development
2022-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2021.101136
Part of ISSN: 1467-8039
Contributors: Terezka Beránková; Aleš Buček; Thomas Bourguignon; Johanna Romero Arias; Pierre D. Akama; David Sillam-Dussès; Jan Šobotník
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Thomas Bourguignon

Vicariance and dispersal events inferred from mitochondrial genomes and nuclear genes (18S, 28S) shaped global Cryptocercus distributions

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2022-01 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107318
Part of ISSN: 1055-7903
Contributors: Yanli Che; Wenbo Deng; Weijun Li; Jiawei Zhang; Yukihiro Kinjo; Gaku Tokuda; Thomas Bourguignon; Nathan Lo; Zongqing Wang
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The evolution of body size in termites

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2021-11-24 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2021.1458
Contributors: Nobuaki Mizumoto; Thomas Bourguignon
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Enhanced Mutation Rate, Relaxed Selection, and the “Domino Effect” are associated with Gene Loss in Blattabacterium, A Cockroach Endosymbiont

Molecular Biology and Evolution
2021-08-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab159
Contributors: Yukihiro Kinjo; Nathan Lo; Paula Villa Martín; Gaku Tokuda; Simone Pigolotti; Thomas Bourguignon; Xuhua Xia
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Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of Apicotermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae)

Systematic Entomology
2021-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1111/syen.12486
Contributors: Johanna Romero Arias; Arthur Boom; Menglin Wang; Crystal Clitheroe; Jan Šobotník; Petr Stiblik; Thomas Bourguignon; Yves Roisin
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Termite evolution: mutualistic associations, key innovations, and the rise of Termitidae

Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
2021-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00018-020-03728-z
Contributors: Thomas Chouvenc; Jan Šobotník; Michael S. Engel; Thomas Bourguignon
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Evolutionary rates are correlated between cockroach symbionts and mitochondrial genomes

Biology Letters
2020 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0702
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Contributors: Arab, D.A.; Bourguignon, T.; Wang, Z.; Ho, S.Y.W.; Lo, N.
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Termites host specific fungal communities that differ from those in their ambient environments

Fungal Ecology
2020-12 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.funeco.2020.100991
Part of ISSN: 1754-5048
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Increased Mutation Rate Is Linked to Genome Reduction in Prokaryotes

Current Biology
2020-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.07.034
Part of ISSN: 0960-9822
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Thomas Bourguignon

Termites are associated with external species-specific bacterial communities

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
2020-10-23 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1128/aem.02042-20
Part of ISSN: 0099-2240
Part of ISSN: 1098-5336
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Thomas Bourguignon

Unmapped RNA Virus Diversity in Termites and Their Symbionts

Viruses
2020-10-09 | Journal article
DOI: 10.3390/v12101145
Part of ISSN: 1999-4915
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Thomas Bourguignon

The trail-following pheromone of the termite Serritermes serrifer

Chemoecology
2020-09-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-020-00324-2
Part of ISSN: 0937-7409
Part of ISSN: 1423-0445
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Thomas Bourguignon

Modern termites inherited the potential of collective construction from their common ancestor

Ecology and Evolution
2020-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.6381
Part of ISSN: 2045-7758
Part of ISSN: 2045-7758
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Ocean currents promote rare species diversity in protists

Science Advances
2020-07 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz9037
Part of ISSN: 2375-2548
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Thomas Bourguignon

Trail-Following Pheromones in the Termite Subfamily Syntermitinae (Blattodea, Termitoidae, Termitidae)

Journal of Chemical Ecology
2020-06 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10886-020-01180-8
Part of ISSN: 0098-0331
Part of ISSN: 1573-1561
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Chemical and vibratory signals used in alarm communication in the termite Reticulitermes flavipes (Rhinotermitidae)

Insectes Sociaux
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-018-00682-9
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2-s2.0-85058403586
Contributors: Delattre, O.; Šobotník, J.; Jandák, V.; Synek, J.; Cvačka, J.; Jiříček, O.; Bourguignon, T.; Sillam-Dussès, D.
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Complete mitochondrial genomes from transcriptomes: assessing pros and cons of data mining for assembling new mitogenomes

Scientific Reports
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51313-7
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2-s2.0-85073458569
Contributors: Forni, G.; Puccio, G.; Bourguignon, T.; Evans, T.; Mantovani, B.; Rota-Stabelli, O.; Luchetti, A.
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Evolution of Termite Symbiosis Informed by Transcriptome-Based Phylogenies

Current Biology
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.076
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2-s2.0-85074066769
Contributors: Bucek, A.; Šobotník, J.; He, S.; Shi, M.; McMahon, D.P.; Holmes, E.C.; Roisin, Y.; Lo, N.; Bourguignon, T.
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Global spread of the German cockroach, Blattella germanica

Biological Invasions
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-018-1865-2
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2-s2.0-85055750963
Contributors: Tang, Q.; Bourguignon, T.; Willenmse, L.; De Coninck, E.; Evans, T.
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Historical biogeography of the termite clade Rhinotermitinae (Blattodea: Isoptera)

Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.11.005
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2-s2.0-85057616075
Contributors: Wang, M.; Buček, A.; Šobotník, J.; Sillam-Dussès, D.; Evans, T.A.; Roisin, Y.; Lo, N.; Bourguignon, T.
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The oral gland, a new exocrine organ of termites

Arthropod Structure and Development
2019 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2019.100876
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2-s2.0-85070279318
Contributors: Synek, J.; Beránková, T.; Stiblik, P.; Pflegerová, J.; Akama, P.D.; Bourguignon, T.; Sillam-Dussès, D.; Šobotník, J.
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