Phylogeny of eusocial Lasioglossum reveals multiple losses of eusociality within a primitively eusocial clade of bees (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Systematic Biology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-36

  Danforth, Bryan N ^a   Conway, Lindsay ^b   Ji, Shuqing ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Comparative methods; Eusociality; Phylogeny; Social behavior; Social evolution; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HALICTIDAE; HEMIHALICTUS; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; LASIOGLOSSUM;

EID: 0037291495     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10635150390132687     Document Type: Article

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