Ant tending influences soldier production in a social aphid

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1455, 2000, Pages 1863-1868

  Shingleton, A W ^a   Foster, W A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant; Aphid; Defence investment; Polymorphism; Pseudoregma sundanica; Soldiers

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; APHID; MYRMECOPHILY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; APHID; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; ARACHNIDA; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HOMOPTERA; INSECTA; PSEUDOREGMA SUNDANICA;

EID: 0034703493     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1222     Document Type: Article

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