Temporal changes in the relationship between observed and expected sex-investment frequencies, social structure and intraspecific parasitism in Leptothorax tuberum (Formicidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 515-536

  Pearson, B ^a   Raybould, A F ^a   Clarke, R T ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ants; Egg dumping; Isozymes; Polygyny; Relatedness; Split sex ratios

Indexed keywords

ANT; SEX-INVESTMENT FREQUENCY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

DOREST; DORSET; ENGLAND; HOLWORTH; PORTLAND; ST ALBAN'S HEAD; UK;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPTOTHORAX TUBERUM;

EID: 0030801950     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bijl.1997.0139     Document Type: Article

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