Assured fitness returns favor sociality in a mass-provisioning sweat bee, Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 14-21

  Smith, Adam R ^a   Wcislo, William T ^b   O'Donnell, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Ant predation; Assured fitness returns; Brood defense; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEE; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; FITNESS;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HALICTIDAE; HALICTINAE; HYMENOPTERA; MEGALOPTA; MEGALOPTA GENALIS;

EID: 0038199516     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-003-0589-0     Document Type: Article

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