Selfish genes: A green beard in the red fire ant

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6693, 1998, Pages 573-575

  Keller, Laurent ^a   Ross, Kenneth G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; GENETICS; OLFACTORY CUE; PHENOTYPE;

ANT; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE ISOLATION; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 0032490938     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29064     Document Type: Article

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