Genetic relatedness among worker nestmates of three formicine slave-making ants

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 31-36

  Savolainen, R ^a   Seppa P ^b,c  

^a Division of Population Biology   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Polygyny; Relatedness; Slave making

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030057915     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01253953     Document Type: Article

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