Testing kin selection with sex allocation data in eusocial Hymenoptera

Heredity

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 473-478

  Chapuisat, Michel ^a   Keller, Laurent ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ants; Kin selection; Relatedness asymmetry; Sex ratio; Social Hymenoptera

Indexed keywords

GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS; GENETIC SELECTION; PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS;

KIN SELECTION; SEX ALLOCATION;

HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0033033173     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6885340     Document Type: Short Survey

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