Productivity, individual-level and colony-level flexibility, and organization of work as consequences of colony size

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

Volumn 95, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 8665-8669

  Karsai, István ^a   Wenzel, John W ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; WASP; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0032555145     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.15.8665     Document Type: Article

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