Dispersal of first "workers" in social wasps: Causes and implications of an alternative reproductive strategy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 13737-13742

  Reeve, H Kern ^a   Peters, John M ^a   Nonacs, Peter ^b   Starks, Philip T ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; WASPS;

EID: 0032506023     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.23.13737     Document Type: Article

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