Kin recognition pheromones in social wasps: Combining chemical and behavioural evidence

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 625-629

  Gamboa, George J ^a   Grudzien, Thaddeus A ^a   Espelie, Kare E ^b   Bura, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KIN RECOGNITION; PHEROMONE; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; POLISTES FUSCATUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0029666910     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0067     Document Type: Article

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