Division of labour and seasonality in the ant Leptothorax albipennis: Worker corpulence and its influence on behaviour

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 723-738

  Blanchard, G B ^a   Orledge, G M ^a   Reynolds, S E ^a   Franks, N R ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; SEASONALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEPTOTHORAX ALBIPENNIS;

EID: 0033850821     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1374     Document Type: Article

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