Facultative and obligate slavery in formicine ants: Frequency of slavery, and proportion and size of slaves

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 47-58

  Savolainen, Riitta ^a,b   Deslippe, Richard J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Dufour's gland; Formicinae; Slave making; Worker number

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001819212     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1996.tb01695.x     Document Type: Article

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