Effect of queen phenotype and social environment on early queen mortality in incipient colonies of the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 371-377

  Bernasconi, Giorgina ^a   Keller, Laurent ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY; MORTALITY; QUEEN;

SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 0033083139     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0955     Document Type: Article

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