The effect of colony size on conflict over male-production between gamergate and dominant workers in the ponerine ant diacamma sp.

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-156

  Nakata, K ^a   Tsuji, K ^b,c  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conflict for male production; Diacamma sp.; Queen policing; Queenless ponerine; Worker reproduction; Worker policing

Indexed keywords

DIACAMMA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 0029905568     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1996.9522925     Document Type: Article

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