Docile sitters and active fighters in paper wasps: A tale of two queens

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 176-179

  Kardile, Sujata P ^a   Gadagkar, Raghavendra ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; QUEEN; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; WASP;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; INDIA; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; ROPALIDIA CYATHIFORMIS; ROPALIDIA MARGINATA; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; WASP;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WASPS;

INDIA;

ANIMALIA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; POLISTINAE; ROPALIDIA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0036256711     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-002-0306-2     Document Type: Article

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