Unrelated helpers in a social insect

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6788, 2000, Pages 784-787

  Queller, David C ^a   Zacchi, Francesca ^a   Cervo, Rita ^b   Turillazzi, Stefano ^b   Henshaw, Michael T ^a   Santorelli, Lorenzo A ^b   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

GENETIC MARKER; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SOCIAL INSECT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; GENETIC MARKER; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASP;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; MALE; WASPS;

EID: 0034659810     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35015552     Document Type: Article

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