An abrupt transition in colony founding behaviour in the ant Messor pergandei

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1583-1594

  Cahan, Sara ^a   Helms, Ken R ^a   Rissing, Steven W ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; GENETIC VARIANCE; GENOTYPE;

AGGRESSION; ANT; COLONY FOUNDING; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HAPLOMETROSIS; PLEIMETROSIS;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MESSOR PERGANDEI;

EID: 0032103570     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0699     Document Type: Article

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