Cooperative colony foundation by termite female pairs: Altruism for survivorship in incipient colonies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 167-173

  Matsuura, Kenji ^a   Fujimoto, Miki ^a   Goka, Koichi ^b   Nishida, Takayoshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COLONIAL BREEDING; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; TERMITE;

ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS;

EID: 0036395224     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2002.3062     Document Type: Article

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