Reproductive conflicts in social animals: Who has power?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 277-282

  Beekman, Madeleine ^a   Komdeur, Jan ^b   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EUSOCIALITY; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEX ALLOCATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0038175319     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00068-5     Document Type: Review

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