Context-dependent nestmate discrimination in the paper wasp, polistes dominulus: A critical test of the optimal acceptance threshold model

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 449-458

  Starks, Philip T ^a   Fischer, Daniel J ^a   Watson, Rebecca E ^a   Melikian, George L ^a   Nath, Sanjai D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; EUSOCIALITY; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MODEL; RECOGNITION; WASP;

ARENA; HYMENOPTERA; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0032143403     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0778     Document Type: Article

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