Exposure of the African mound building termite, Macrotermes bellicosus workers to commercially formulated 2,4-D and atrazine caused high mortality and impaired locomotor response

• Afure J. Ejomah ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Afure J. Ejomah, Osariyekemwen O. Uyi, Sese-Owei Ekaye

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

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• Osariyekemwen O. Uyi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Afure J. Ejomah, Osariyekemwen O. Uyi, Sese-Owei Ekaye

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: osariyekemwen.uyi@uniben.edu

  Current address: Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America

  Affiliations Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5268-4676

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• Sese-Owei Ekaye

  Contributed equally to this work with: Afure J. Ejomah, Osariyekemwen O. Uyi, Sese-Owei Ekaye

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal and Environmental Biology, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

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