Queen/worker thorax volume ratios and nest-founding strategies in ants

Oecologia

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-93

  Stille, Marie ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ants; Colony founding; Gyne size; Parasitism; Polygyny

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY FOUNDATION; NEST FOUNDATION; POLYGYNY; THORAX VOLUME RATIO;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0029669105     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00328795     Document Type: Article

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