Task allocation and reproductive skew in social mass provisioning carpenter bees in relation to age and size

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 198-207

  Hogendoorn, K ^a   Velthuis, H H W ^b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ceratina; Oophagy; Reproductive competition; Xylocopa

Indexed keywords

AGE; BEE; BODY SIZE; REPRODUCTION; SKEWNESS;

HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0032793621     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000400050135     Document Type: Review

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