Queens versus workers: Sex-ratio conflict in eusocial Hymenoptera

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 88-93

  Mehdiabadi, Natasha J ^a   Reeve, Hudson Kern ^b   Mueller, Ulrich G ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUSOCIALITY; KIN SELECTION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0037297596     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(02)00056-3     Document Type: Review

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