Honey bee colonies are group-level adaptive units

American Naturalist

Volumn 150, Issue SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Seeley, Thomas D ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE UNIT; COLONY; EVOLUTION; HONEYBEE; NATURAL SELECTION; SOCIAL INSECT;

APIDAE; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0030820905     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/286048     Document Type: Conference Paper

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