Worker reproduction and social hierarchies in Leptothorax ants

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 849-864

  Heinze, J ^a,b   Puchinger, W ^a,c   Holldobler B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; REPRODUCTIVE CONFLICT; SOCIAL HIERARCHY; WORKER REPRODUCTION;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPTOTHORAX; LEPTOTHORAX UNIFASCIATUS;

EID: 0030734180     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0511     Document Type: Article

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