The adaptive significance of inquiline parasite workers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1521, 2003, Pages 1315-1322

  Sumner, Seirian ^a,b   Nash, David R ^a   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Reproductive suppression; Social parasitism; Acromyrmex insinuator

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; INQUILINISM; NATURAL SELECTION; PARASITE; SOCIAL PARASITISM; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL CASTE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC TRAIT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE CYCLE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

ACROMYRMEX; ACROMYRMEX INSINUATOR; ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 0037899563     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2362     Document Type: Article

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