Cooperation among unrelated individuals: The ant foundress case

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 477-482

  Bernasconi, Giorgina ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; QUEEN;

ANT; COMPETITION; COOPERATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0033485267     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(99)01722-X     Document Type: Review

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