Experimental variation in polyandry affects parasite loads and fitness in a bumble-bee

Nature

Volumn 397, Issue 6715, 1999, Pages 151-154

  Baer, Boris ^a   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; FITNESS; PARASITE INFESTATION; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033552925     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/16451     Document Type: Article

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