The role of larval nutrition in pre‐imaginal biasing of caste in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1991, Pages 435-440

  GADAGKAR, RAGHAVENDRA ^a   BHAGAVAN, SEETHA ^b   CHANDRASHEKARA, K ^a   VINUTHA, C ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Larval nutrition; pre imaginal caste bias; primitively eusocial wasp; Ropalidia marginata

Indexed keywords

CASTE; HYMENOPTERA; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; ROPALIDIA; ROPALIDIA MARGINATA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0026314067     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1991.tb00236.x     Document Type: Article

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