The mechanism of nestmate discrimination in social wasps (Polistes, Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1983, Pages 299-305

  Pfennig, David W ^a   Gamboa, George J ^b   Reeve, Hudson K ^b   Reeve, Jan Shellman ^b   Ferguson, I Deanna ^b  

^a SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0001485602     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: 14320762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00299677     Document Type: Article

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