Competition and relatedness between queens of the facultatively polygynous ant Myrmica tahoensis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 831-840

  Evans, Jay D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMPETITION; KINSHIP RELATION; MONOGYNY; POLYGYNY; QUEEN;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MYRMICA TAHOENSIS;

EID: 0029750362     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0087     Document Type: Article

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