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Bonabeau, E., Theraulaz, G., Deneubourg, J-L., Franks, N.R., Rafelsberger, O., Joly, J-L. and Blanco, S (1998)  A Model For The Emergence Of Pillars, Walls And Royal Chambers In Termite Nests, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B 353, pp 1561-1576

Bristow, K. L. & Holt, J. A. (1997) Can Termites Create Local Energy Sinks to Regulate Mound Temperature?   Journal of Thermal Biology, Vol.12, pp 19-21.

Collins, N. M. (1979) The Nests of Macrotermes bellicosus (Smeathman) from Mokwa, Nigeria, Insectes Soc. Vol. 26, pp 240-246.

Darlington, J.P.E.C. and Noirot, C. (2000) Termite Nests: Architecture, Regulation and Defense, Kluwer Academic Publishers, ed. By T. Abe et al, Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbiosis, Ecology, pp121-139.

Grassé, P.P. (1959) La Reconstruction Du Nid et Les Coordinations Inter-Individuelles Chez Bellicositermes Natalensis Et Cubitermes sp. La theorie de la stigmergie: essai d'interpretation du comportement des termites constructeurs. Insectes Soc. Vol. 6, pp 41-81.

Korb, J. and Linsenmair, K.E. (2000). Ventilation of Termite Mounds: New Results Require a New Model, Behavioral Ecology, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp 486-494.

Loveday, D.L, (2003) research presented for inaugural lecture at Loughborough University.

Lüscher, M. (1961) Air-conditioned termite nests. Sci. Am. 205, pp138-145.

Turner, J.S. (2000) Architecture and Morphogenesis in the Mound of Macrotermes Michaelseni (Sjöstedt) (Isoptera: Termitidae, Macrotermitinae) in Northern Namibia      , Cimbebasia 16, 2000 pp143-175.

Turner, J.S. (2001) On the Mound of Macrotermes michaelseni as an Organ of Repiratory Gas Exchange, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Vol. 74, No. 6, 2001 pp798-822

Turner, J.S. (2002) Interviews with the author and exerts from: The Tinkerer’s Apprentice, to be published.

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