Effect of colony size on the number of gamergates in the queenless ponerine ant Rhytidoponera aurata

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 29-33

  Komene, Y ^a,b   Higashi, S ^a   Ito, F ^c   Miyata, H ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hakodate Technical High School   (Japan)

^c KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colonial budding; Gamergate; Monogyny; Ovarian development; Polygyny

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY; POPULATION SIZE; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

ACACIA; EUCALYPTUS; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; RHYTIDOPONERA AURATA;

EID: 0032964208     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s000400050108     Document Type: Article

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