Reproductive dominance and differential ovicide in the communally breeding burying beetle Nicrophorus tomentosus

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 313-320

  Scott, Michelle Pellissier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Burying beetles; Communal breeding; Oophagy; Ovicide; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

NICROPHORUS TOMENTOSUS;

EID: 0030995723     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002650050347     Document Type: Article

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