Thelytokous worker reproduction and lack of wolbachia infection in the harvesting ant messor capitatus

Ethology Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 309-314

  Grasso, D A ^a   Wenseleers, T ^b   Mori, A ^a   Le Moli, F ^a   Billen, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Arrhenotoky; Messor capitatus; Social insects; Thelytoky; Wolbachia; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; PARTHENOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THELYTOKY;

ANT; OFFSPRING PRODUCTION; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTION;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MESSOR CAPITATUS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 0033823768     PISSN: 03949370     EISSN: 18287131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08927014.2000.9522803     Document Type: Article

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