Queen-size dimorphism in the facultatively polygynous ant Leptothorax spinosior (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 241-251

  Hamaguchi, Keiko ^a   Kinomura, Kyoichi ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Gifu Aikawa High School   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ants; Dispersal strategy; Leptothorax spinosior; Queen number; Queen size polymorphism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030534629     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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