Colony sex ratios, conflict between queens and workers, and apparent queen control in the ant Pheidole desertorum

Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1470-1478

  Helms, Ken R ^a,b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Pheidole; Queen worker conflict; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY; EVOLUTION; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX RATIO;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; PHEIDOLE; PHEIDOLE DESERTORUM;

EID: 0032694694     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1999.tb05411.x     Document Type: Article

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