Termite evolution: mutualistic associations, key innovations, and the rise of Termitidae

Origin of Mutualism Between Termites and Flagellated Gut Protists: Transition From Horizontal to Vertical Transmission

(2020) Christine A. Nalepa   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The State of the World's Insects

(2020) Paul Eggleton   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

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

(2020) Nobuaki Mizumoto et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Complex relationship between tunneling patterns and individual behaviors in termites

(2020) Nobuaki Mizumoto et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

High diversity and low host-specificity of Termitomyces symbionts cultivated by Microtermes spp. indicate frequent symbiont exchange

(2020) Lennart J.J. van de Peppel et al.   Fungal Ecology

Termite’s Twisted Mandible Presents Fast, Powerful, and Precise Strikes

(2020) Kuan-Chih Kuan et al.   Scientific Reports

Compositional and functional characterisation of biomass-degrading microbial communities in guts of plant fibre- and soil-feeding higher termites

(2020) Martyna Marynowska et al.   Microbiome

Expanded New World Distributions of Genera in the Termite Family Kalotermitidae

(2019) Rudolf H. Scheffrahn   SOCIOBIOLOGY

Molecular phylogenetic position of Hoplonympha natator (Trichonymphea, Parabasalia)

(2019) Evan D. Mee et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Termite colonies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar demonstrate their early eusocial lifestyle in damp wood

(2019) Zhipeng Zhao et al.   National Science Review

Evolution of Termite Symbiosis Informed by Transcriptome-Based Phylogenies

(2019) Ales Bucek et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Fungal nutrition allocation enhances mutualism with fungus-growing termite

(2019) Chun-I Chiu et al.   Fungal Ecology

Limited survival strategy in starving subterranean termite colonies

(2019) T. Chouvenc   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Ant‐termite interactions: an important but under‐explored ecological linkage

(2019) Jiri Tuma et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Rampant Host Switching Shaped the Termite Gut Microbiome

(2018) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Incomplete Co-cladogenesis Between Zootermopsis Termites and Their Associated Protists

(2018) Stephen J Taerum et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

The biomass distribution on Earth

(2018) Yinon M. Bar-On et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

When Darwin’s Special Difficulty Promotes Diversification in Insects

(2018) Frédéric Legendre et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Parental Nitrogen Transfer and Apparent Absence of N2 Fixation during Colony Foundation in Coptotermes formosanus Shiraki

(2018) Aaron Mullins et al.   Insects

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Can interaction specificity in the fungus-farming termite symbiosis be explained by nutritional requirements of the fungal crop?

(2018) Rafael R. da Costa et al.   Fungal Ecology

Fiber-associated spirochetes are major agents of hemicellulose degradation in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites

(2018) Gaku Tokuda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Roisinitermes ebogoensis gen. & sp. n., an outstanding drywood termite with snapping soldiers from Cameroon (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae)

(2018) Rudolf H. Scheffrahn et al.   ZooKeys

Polymorphism in the neotropical termiteSerritermes serrifer

(2017) José Renato Chagas Barbosa et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

White-gutted soldiers: simplification of the digestive tube for a non-particulate diet in higher Old World termites (Isoptera: Termitidae)

(2017) R. H. Scheffrahn et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Exclusive Gut Flagellates of Serritermitidae Suggest a Major Transfaunation Event in Lower Termites: Description of Heliconympha glossotermitis gen. nov. spec. nov.

(2017) Renate Radek et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Symbiogenesis: Beyond the endosymbiosis theory?

(2017) Duur K. Aanen et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships, taxonomic revision and new taxa of Termitomyces (Lyophyllaceae, Basidiomycota) inferred from combined nLSU- and mtSSU-rDNA sequences

(2017) D.C. MOSSEBO et al.   Phytotaxa

The Termite Worker Phenotype Evolved as a Dispersal Strategy for Fertile Wingless Individuals before Eusociality

(2016) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Morphologically Specialized Termite Castes and Advanced Sociality in the Early Cretaceous

(2016) Michael S. Engel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Antimicrobial Activity of Actinobacteria Isolated From the Guts of Subterranean Termites

(2016) R. A. Arango et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Mitochondrial Phylogenomics Resolves the Global Spread of Higher Termites, Ecosystem Engineers of the Tropics

(2016) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Oceanic dispersal, vicariance and human introduction shaped the modern distribution of the termitesReticulitermes,HeterotermesandCoptotermes

(2016) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Termites

(2016) Pascal Jouquet et al.   SOIL SCIENCE

Oligocene Termite Nests with In Situ Fungus Gardens from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania, Support a Paleogene African Origin for Insect Agriculture

(2016) Eric M. Roberts et al.   PLoS One

Termites utilise clay to build structural supports and so increase foraging resources

(2016) Sebastian Oberst et al.   Scientific Reports

The Gut Microbiota of Termites: Digesting the Diversity in the Light of Ecology and Evolution

(2015) Andreas Brune et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Lignocellulose degradation mechanisms across the Tree of Life

(2015) Simon M Cragg et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN CHEMICAL BIOLOGY

What makes the cost of brood care important for the evolution of termite sociality? Its insignificance

(2015) YVES ROISIN   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

‘Cost’ of proctodeal trophallaxis in extant termite individuals has no relevance in analysing the origins of eusociality

(2015) CHRISTINE A. NALEPA   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Origin of termite eusociality: trophallaxis integrates the social, nutritional, and microbial environments

(2015) CHRISTINE A. NALEPA   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Towards an integrated understanding of the consequences of fungus domestication on the fungus-growing termite gut microbiota

(2015) Michael Poulsen   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The soldierless Apicotermitinae: insights into a poorly known and ecologically dominant tropical taxon

(2015) T. Bourguignon et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Diet is the primary determinant of bacterial community structure in the guts of higher termites

(2015) Aram Mikaelyan et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Acetogenesis from H2plus CO2and nitrogen fixation by an endosymbiotic spirochete of a termite-gut cellulolytic protist

(2015) Moriya Ohkuma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

RevisitingCoptotermes(Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae): a global taxonomic road map for species validity and distribution of an economically important subterranean termite genus

(2015) THOMAS CHOUVENC et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Diverse Rhinotermitidae and Termitidae (Isoptera) in Dominican Amber

(2014) Kumar Krishna et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

The Role of Host Phylogeny Varies in Shaping Microbial Diversity in the Hindguts of Lower Termites

(2014) Vera Tai et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Cockroach Origin of the Termite Gut Microbiota: Patterns in Bacterial Community Structure Reflect Major Evolutionary Events

(2014) Carsten Dietrich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The fibre-associated cellulolytic bacterial community in the hindgut of wood-feeding higher termites (Nasutitermesspp.)

(2014) Aram Mikaelyan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

First comparison of quantitative estimates of termite biomass and abundance reveals strong intercontinental differences

(2014) Cecilia A.L. Dahlsjö et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

The Evolutionary History of Termites as Inferred from 66 Mitochondrial Genomes

(2014) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Symbiotic digestion of lignocellulose in termite guts

(2014) Andreas Brune   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Resource Opportunities From the Nest of Dying Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae) Colonies: A Laboratory Case of Ecological Succession

(2013) Thomas Chouvenc et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Armed reproductives: Evolution of the frontal gland in imagoes of Termitidae

(2013) Kateřina Kutalová et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Treatise on the Isoptera of the World

(2013) Kumar Krishna et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

The evolution of parental care in insects: the roles of ecology, life history and the social environment

(2013) JANINE W. Y. WONG et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Extended disease resistance emerging from the faecal nest of a subterranean termite

(2013) T. Chouvenc et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Biology of Invasive Termites: A Worldwide Review

(2012) Theodore A. Evans et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Developmental Pathways of Psammotermes hybostoma (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae): Old Pseudergates Make up a New Sterile Caste

(2012) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   PLoS One

Brood care and social evolution in termites

(2012) J. Korb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fungiculture or Termite Husbandry? The Ruminant Hypothesis

(2012) Tânia Nobre et al.   Insects

Managing Social Insects of Urban Importance

(2011) Michael K. Rust et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Feeding ecology and phylogenetic structure of a complex neotropical termite assemblage, revealed by nitrogen stable isotope ratios

(2011) THOMAS BOURGUIGNON et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Nitrate reduction, nitrous oxide formation, and anaerobic ammonia oxidation to nitrite in the gut of soil-feeding termites (Cubitermes and Ophiotermes spp.)

(2011) David Kamanda Ngugi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Body Size and Termite Evolution

(2011) Christine A. Nalepa   Evolutionary Biology

Rich Microbial Community Associated with the Nest Material ofReticulitermes flavipes(Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

(2011) Thomas Chouvenc et al.   FLORIDA ENTOMOLOGIST

Farming termites determine the genetic population structure of Termitomyces fungal symbionts

(2011) TÂNIA NOBRE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Dating the fungus-growing termites’ mutualism shows a mixture between ancient codiversification and recent symbiont dispersal across divergent hosts

(2011) T. NOBRE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The termites of Early Eocene Cambay amber, with the earliest record of the Termitidae (Isoptera)

(2011) Michael Engel et al.   ZooKeys

Termites (Isoptera): Their Phylogeny, Classification, and Rise to Ecological Dominance

(2010) Michael S. Engel et al.   AMERICAN MUSEUM NOVITATES

Nitrogen mineralization, denitrification, and nitrate ammonification by soil-feeding termites: a 15N-based approach

(2010) David Kamanda Ngugi et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Structure and function of defensive glands in soldiers of Glossotermes oculatus (Isoptera: Serritermitidae)

(2010) JAN ŠOBOTNÍK et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Chemical warfare in termites

(2010) Jan Šobotník et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

The frontal gland in workers of Neotropical soldierless termites

(2010) Jan Šobotník et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Opposing headings of excavating and depositing termites facilitate branch formation in the Formosan subterranean termite

(2009) Paul Bardunias et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cellulolytic Systems in Insects

(2009) Hirofumi Watanabe et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Temporal and geographic variations in the morphology and chemical composition of the frontal gland in imagoes of Prorhinotermes species (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

(2009) RAFAL PISKORSKI et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Developmental pathways ofGlossotermes oculatus(Isoptera, Serritermitidae): at the cross-roads of worker caste evolution in termites

(2009) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Vertical transmission as the key to the colonization of Madagascar by fungus-growing termites?

(2009) T. Nobre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High Symbiont Relatedness Stabilizes Mutualistic Cooperation in Fungus-Growing Termites

(2009) D. K. Aanen et al.   SCIENCE

Altricial Development in Subsocial Wood-Feeding Cockroaches

(2009) Christine A. Nalepa et al.   ZOOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Sand Displacement During Tunnel Excavation by the Formosan Subterranean Termite (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae)

(2008) Hou-Feng Li et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Endemic origin and vast anthropogenic dispersal of the West Indian drywood termite

(2008) Rudolf H. Scheffrahn et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Termite (Insecta: Isoptera) Species Composition in a Primary Rain Forest and Agroforests in Central Amazonia

(2008) Ilse L. Ackerman et al.   BIOTROPICA

(E,E)-α-Farnesene, an Alarm Pheromone of the Termite Prorhinotermes canalifrons

(2008) Jan Šobotník et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Wood-feeding cockroaches as models for termite evolution (Insecta: Dictyoptera): Cryptocercus vs. Parasphaeria boleiriana

(2008) Klaus-Dieter Klass et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The phylogeny of termites (Dictyoptera: Isoptera) based on mitochondrial and nuclear markers: Implications for the evolution of the worker and pseudergate castes, and foraging behaviors

(2008) Frédéric Legendre et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Coming out of the woods: do termites need a specialized worker caste to search for new food sources?

(2008) Thomas Rupf et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Inheritance and diversification of symbiotic trichonymphid flagellates from a common ancestor of termites and the cockroach Cryptocercus

(2008) M. Ohkuma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome of an Endosymbiont Coupling N2 Fixation to Cellulolysis Within Protist Cells in Termite Gut

(2008) Y. Hongoh et al.   SCIENCE

Termite soldier defence strategies: a reassessment of Prestwich's classification and an examination of the evolution of defence morphology using extended eigenshape analyses of head morphology

(2008) OLIVIA I. SCHOLTZ et al.   ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY