Selected
publications
Biodiversity
Leponce
M., Theunis L., Delabie J.H.C., Roisin Y. (2004) Scale dependence
of
diversity measures in a leaf-litter ant assemblage. Ecography 27, 253-267.
Roisin Y., Leponce M. (2004) Characterizing
termite assemblages in fragmented forests: a test case in the
Argentinian
Chaco. Austral Ecol. 29, 637-646.
Roisin Y., Dejean A., Corbara B.,
Orivel J., Samaniego M., Leponce M. (2006) Vertical stratification
of the termite assemblage in a neotropical rainforest. Oecologia
149, 301-311.
Taxonomy:
New Guinea
- Roisin Y. (1990) The
termite
genus Amitermes Silvestri in Papua New Guinea. Indo-Malay.
Zool.
6, 185-194.
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1990) Coptophysa
and Coptophysella, two new genera of physogastric
termitophilous
staphylinids associated with Coptotermes in Papua New Guinea
(Coleoptera
: Staphylinidae). Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. (Entomol.) 60,
179-184.
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1993) Prorhinopsenius
neotermitis spec. nov. (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae,
Trichopseniinae),
guest of Neotermes (Isoptera, Kalotermitidae) in Papua New
Guinea. Bull. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg. (Entomol.) 63, 145-150.
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1996)
The nasute termites (Isoptera, Nasutitermitinae) of Papua New Guinea. Invertebr.
Taxon. 10, 507-616.
Roisin
Y., Pasteels J.M. (2000) The genus Microcerotermes
(Isoptera:
Termitidae) in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Invertebr.
Taxon.
14, 137-174.
Taxonomy:
Neotropical Region
Scheffrahn
R.H., Roisin Y. (1995)
Antillean Nasutitermitinae (Isoptera: Termitidae):
Parvitermes
collinsae, a new subterranean termite from Hispaniola, and
redescription
of P. pallidiceps and P. wolcotti. Fla. Entomol. 78,
585-600.
- Roisin Y. (1995)
Humivorous nasute
termites (Isoptera: Nasutitermitinae) from the Panama Canal area. Belg.
J. Zool. 125, 283-300.
Krecek
J., Scheffrahn R.H., Roisin Y. (1996) Greater Antillean
Nasutitermitinae
(Isoptera: Termitidae):
Constrictotermes guantanamensis, a new subterranean
termite from eastern Cuba. Fla. Entomol. 79, 180-187.
- Roisin Y., Scheffrahn
R.H.,
Krecek
J. (1996) Generic revision of the smaller nasute termite fauna of
the
Greater Antilles (Isoptera, Termitidae, Nasutitermitinae). Ann.
entomol.
Soc. Am. 89, 775-787.
Roisin
Y. (2003) Cryptotermes chacoensis, a new species from
native
South American inland habitats (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae). Sociobiology
42, 319-327.
Phylogeny
Miura
T., Roisin Y., Matsumoto T. (2000) Molecular phylogeny and
biogeography
of the nasute termite genus Nasutitermes (Isoptera:
Termitidae)
in the Pacific tropics.
Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 17, 1-10.
Diversity
and evolution of castes
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1985) Imaginal
polymorphism and polygyny in the Neo-Guinean termite Nasutitermes
princeps (Desneux). Insect. Soc. 32, 140-157.
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1986) Differentiation
of worker-derived intercastes and precocious imagoes after queen
removal
in the Neo-Guinean termite Nasutitermes princeps (Desneux). J.
Morphol. 189, 281-293.
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1987) Caste
developmental potentialities in the termite Nasutitermes
novarumhebridarum. Entomol. Exp. Appl. 44, 277-287.
- Roisin Y. (1988)
Morphology,
development and evolutionary significance of the working stages in the
caste system of Prorhinotermes (Insecta, Isoptera). Zoomorphology
107, 339-347.
- Roisin Y. (1988) The
caste system
of Parrhinotermes browni (Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae). Sociobiology
14, 21-28
- Roisin Y. (1990) Reversibility
of regressive molts in the termite Neotermes papua. Naturwissenschaften
77, 246-247.
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1991)
Polymorphism in the giant cocoa termite, Neotermes papua
(Desneux). Insect. Soc. 38, 263-272.
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1991)
Sex ratio and asymmetry between the sexes in the production of
replacement
reproductives in the termite, Neotermes papua (Desneux). Ethol.
Ecol. Evol. 3, 327-335.
- Roisin Y. (1992)
Development
of non-reproductive castes in the neotropical termite genera Cornitermes
, Armitermes and Rhynchotermes (Isoptera,
Nasutitermitinae). Insect. Soc. 39, 313-324.
- Roisin Y. (1996)
Castes
in humivorous
and litter-dwelling neotropical nasute termites (Isoptera, Termitidae).
Insect. Soc. 43, 375-389.
- Miura T., Roisin Y.,
Matsumoto T.
(1998) Developmental pathways and polyethism of neuter castes in
the
processional nasute termite Hospitalitermes medioflavus (Isoptera:
Termitidae). Zool. Sci. 15, 843-848.
Roisin
Y., Lenz M. (1999) Caste developmental pathways in colonies of Coptotermes
lacteus (Froggatt) headed by primary reproductives (Isoptera:
Rhinotermitidae).
Insect.
Soc. 46, 273-280.
Roisin
Y. (2000) Diversity and evolution of caste patterns. In: Abe
T., Bignell D.E., Higashi M. (eds) Termites: Evolution, Sociality,
Symbioses,
Ecology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands,
Chapter
5, pp. 95-119; plate 6, p. xix.
Parmentier
D., Roisin Y. (2003)
Caste morphology and development in Termitogeton
nr. planus (Insecta, Isoptera, Rhinotermitidae). J. Morphol.
255, 69-79.
Behavioural
ecology
- Roisin
Y.,
Everaerts C., Pasteels J.M., Bonnard O. (1990) Caste-dependent
reaction
to soldier defensive secretion and chiral alarm/recruitment pheromone
in Nasutitermes princeps. J. Chem. Ecol. 16, 2865-2875.
- Leponce
M.,
Roisin Y., Pasteels J.M. (1995) Environmental influences on the
arboreal
nesting community in New Guinean coconut plantations. Environ.
Entomol.
24, 1442-1452.
- Leponce
M.,
Roisin Y., Pasteels J.M. (1996) Intraspecific interactions in a
community
of arboreal nesting termites. J. Insect Behav. 9, 799-817.
Reproductive
strategies
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1986)
Replacement of reproductives in Nasutitermes princeps (Desneux)
(Isoptera: Termitidae). Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 18, 437-442.
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.
(1986) Reproductive
mechanisms in termites : polycalism and polygyny in Nasutitermes
polygynus and Nasutitermes costalis. Insect. Soc. 33, 149-167.
- Roisin Y., Pasteels
J.M.,
Braekman
J.-C. (1987) Soldier diterpene patterns in relation with
aggressive
behaviour, spatial distribution and reproduction of colonies in Nasutitermes
princeps. Biochem. Syst. Ecol. 15, 253-261.
- Roisin Y. (1987)
Polygyny in Nasutitermes species: field data and theoretical
approaches. In:
Pasteels J.M., Deneubourg J.-L. (eds) From Individual to Collective
Behavior in Social Insects, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel,
Switzerland.
Experientia Suppl. 54, 379-404
- Roisin Y. (1990) Queen
replacement
in the termite Microcerotermes papuanus. Entomol. Exp.
Appl.
56, 83-90.
- Leponce M., Roisin Y.,
Pasteels J.M.
(1996) Reproductive mechanisms and dynamics of habitat colonisation
in Microcerotermes biroi (Isoptera: Termitidae). Ecol.
Entomol.
21, 178-184.
- Leponce M., Roisin Y.,
Pasteels J.M.
(1997) Structure and dynamics of the arboreal termite community in
New Guinean coconut plantations. Biotropica 29, 193-203.
Castes
and sex ratio
- Roisin Y., Lenz M.
(1998)
Process
of sex allocation shift in neotenic-headed colonies of the termite Coptotermes
lacteus. In: Schwarz M.P., Hogendoorn K. (eds) Social
Insects
at the Turn of the Millenium, XIII Congress of the International
Union
for the Study of Social Insects, Adelaide, Australia, p. 398.
Roisin
Y. (2001) Caste sex ratios, sex linkage, and reproductive
strategies
in termites. Insect. Soc. 48, 224-230.
Roisin
Y., Lenz M. (2002) Origin of male-biased sex allocation in colonies
of the termite, Coptotermes lacteus. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.
51, 472-479.
Roisin
Y., Aron S. (2003) Split sex ratios in perennial social
Hymenoptera:
a mixed ESS from the queens' perspective ? Am. Nat.
162,
624-637.
Evolution
of sociality
- Roisin Y. (1994)
Intragroup conflicts
and the evolution of sterile castes in termites. Am. Nat. 143,
751-765.
Roisin
Y. (1999) Philopatric reproduction, a prime mover in the evolution
of termite sociality ? Insect. Soc. 46, 297-305.
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