Genetic support for the evolutionary theory of reproductive transactions in social wasps

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1438, 2000, Pages 75-79

  Reeve, H Kern ^a   Starks, Philip T ^a   Peters, John M ^a   Nonacs, Peter ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Cooperation; Reproductive skew; Social wasps

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; WASP;

ANIMALIA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; POLISTES; POLISTES FUSCATUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0034614448     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.0969     Document Type: Article

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