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Termite colonies from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar demonstrate their early eusocial lifestyle in damp wood.
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- First record of a termite-fungus association in Oligocene evergreen oak wood type (Quercoxylon) from Central Europe.Annals of botany · 2026Article
- Another Type of Beetle Larva of Elateridae from Kachin Amber: A Hairy Click Beetle Larva.Insects · 2026Article
- A New Interesting Moth Lacewing (Neuroptera: Ithonidae) from the Mid-Cretaceous Kachin Amber.Insects · 2025Article
- Body size and evolutionary rate analyses reveal complex evolutionary history of Alvarezsauria.Cladistics : the international journal of the Willi Hennig Society · 2025Article
- One New Genus and Four New Species of Beaded Lacewings (Neuroptera: Berothidae) from Upper Cretaceous Myanmar Amber.Insects · 2024Article
- Extinct and extant termites reveal the fidelity of behavior fossilization in amber.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Molecular Phylogeny Reveals the Past Transoceanic Voyages of Drywood Termites (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae).Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Termite evolution: mutualistic associations, key innovations, and the rise of Termitidae.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021Review
- A new cockroach (Blattodea, Corydiidae) with pectinate antennae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber.ZooKeys · 2021Article
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Abstract
Insect eusociality is characterized by cooperative brood care, reproductive division of labour and multiple generations of adults within a colony. The morphological specializations of the different termite castes from Burmese amber were recently reported, indicating the termites possessed advanced sociality in the mid-Cretaceous. Unfortunately, all the reported Cretaceous termites are individually preserved, which does not cover the behaviours of the cooperative brood care and multiple generations of adults in the nests of the Cretaceous termites. Herein, we report three eusocial aggregations from colonies of the oldest known Stolotermitidae,
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