Mate number, kin selection and social conflicts in stingless bees and honeybees

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1417, 1999, Pages 379-384

  Peters, John M ^a   Queller, David C ^a   Imperatriz Fonseca, Vera L ^b   Roubik, David W ^c   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Apis; Kin selection; Mate number; Meliponini; Microsatellite; Social conflict

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; KIN SELECTION; MATE CHOICE;

ARTICLE; BEE; CONFLICT; EGG LAYING; GENOTYPE; HONEYBEE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES;

APIS; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; MELIPONINAE; SCAPTOTRIGONA POSTICA;

EID: 0033593923     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0648     Document Type: Article

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