Population and colony structure of the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 785-792

  Gadau, J ^a,b   Heinze, J ^a,b   Holldobler B ^a,b   Schmid, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b Institnt für Humangentik   (Germany)

Author keywords

bandsharing coefficient; Camponotus floridanus; F(ST); mating frequency; multilocus DNA fingerprinting; population structure

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; CAMPONOTUS GIGAS; CAMPONOTUS HERCULEANUS; CAMPONOTUS LIGNIPERDUS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 0030512927     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.1996.tb00374.x     Document Type: Article

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