The effects of antibiotics on the development of larvae and the possible role of bacterial load in caste determination and diapause in Myrmica rubra (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 77-90

  Pearson, B ^b   Raybould, A F ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

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