Cooperation among selfish individuals in insect societies

BioScience

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 899-909

  Keller, Laurent ^a   Chapuisat, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0032722294     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313649     Document Type: Article

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