Queen recruitment and split sex ratios in polygynous colonies of the ant Formica exsecta

Ecology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 102-109

  Brown, William D ^a,c   Keller, Laurent ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT FREDONIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Hymenoptera; Polygyny; Queen number; Sex allocation; Social insects

Indexed keywords

POLYGYNY; QUEEN; RECRUITMENT; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INSECT;

FORMICA; FORMICA EXSECTA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 0036172715     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2002.00291.x     Document Type: Article

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