Evolution of life history strategies in ants: Variation in queen number and mode of colony founding

Oikos

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 83-92

  Tsuji, Kazuki ^a,b   Tsuji, Nobuyuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c SASEBO NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY FOUNDING; LIFE HISTORY STRATEGY; QUEEN NUMBER;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0030303810     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3545750     Document Type: Article

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