Helping behaviour in facultatively eusocial hover wasps: An experimental test of the subfertility hypothesis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 633-636

  Field, Jeremy ^a   Foster, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EUSOCIALITY; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; LIOSTENOGASTER FLAVOLINEATA; STENOGASTRINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0033104506     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.0995     Document Type: Article

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