THE COCKROACH
- A MODEL SYSTEM FOR BIOLOGISTS -

Periplaneta americana
(61K jpg of family)
Periplaneta americana

A poem: ST. ROACH .

Complete set of Kunkel lab Cockroach References.

DICTYOPTERA is the modern grouping containing the three groups, cockroaches, termites and mantids.

Go to the 'Tree of Life' Web Page to see where they have been fit into the scheme of animal evolution


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