Weight and protozoa number but not bacteria diversity are associated with successful pair formation of dealates in the Formosan subterranean termite, Coptotermes formosanus

• Junyan Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3819-1207

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• Garima Setia,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, United States of America

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• Li-Hsiang Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4464-433X

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• Qian Sun,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6341-6036

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• Claudia Husseneder

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: chusseneder@agcenter.lsu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5962-9354

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