Cooperative foundation of colonies by unrelated foundresses in the ant Polyrhachis moesta

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 217-226

  Sasaki, K ^a   Satoh, T ^a   Obara, Y ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA finger printing; Pleometrosis; Polyrhachis; Relatedness of cofoundresses

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; POLYRHACHIS; POLYRHACHIS MOESTA;

EID: 0000343219     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01242573     Document Type: Article

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