Diversity of Termite Breeding Systems

摘要: Termites are social insects that live in colonies headed by reproductive castes. The breeding system is defined the number of individuals a colony and castes to which they belong. There tremendous variation termites both within among species. current state our understanding termite systems reviewed. Most founded primary (alate-derived) king queen who mate produce other members. In some species, continue throughout their life span as simple families original queen. others, replaced numerous neotenic (nymph- or worker-derived) reproductives, less commonly descendants founding pair leading inbreeding colony. still can have multiple unrelated reproductives due either groups through fusion. More recently, parthenogenetic reproduction has shown be important species may widespread. A major challenge biology understand ecological evolutionary factors driving systems.