Cofoundress value as a predictor of the timing of conflict in the social wasp, polistes fuscatus (hymenoptera vespidae)

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-83

  Savoyard, J L ^a   Gamboa, G J ^a  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cofoundresses; Conflict; Polistes; Social wasps; Value

Indexed keywords

POLISTES FUSCATUS;

EID: 0033103432     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.1999.9522844     Document Type: Article

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