Multiple paternity, relatedness and genetic diversity in Acromyrmex leaf-cutter ants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1416, 1999, Pages 249-254

  Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a   Fjerdingstad, Else J ^a,b   Frydenberg, Jane ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acromyrmex; Leaf cutter ants; Multiple mating; Paternity; Relatedness; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

ANT; PATERNITY; RELATEDNESS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HONEYBEE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASP;

ACROMYRMEX OCTOSPINOSUS;

EID: 0033531336     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0629     Document Type: Article

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