From Asexual to Eusocial Reproduction by Multilevel Selection by Density-Dependent Competitive Interactions

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 171-195

  Witting, Lars ^a  

^a GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Competitive interactions; Density dependence; Eusocial colony; Life history evolution; Major transitions; Multilevel selection; Sexual reproduction

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DENSITY DEPENDENCE; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; GAME THEORY; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SELECTION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036512660     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2001.1561     Document Type: Article

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