Colony sex ratios vary with breeding system but not relatedness asymmetry in the facultatively polygynous ant Pheidole pallidula

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1336-1342

  Fournier, Denis ^a   Keller, Laurent ^b   Passera, Luc ^c   Aron, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Ants; Kin selection; Polygyny; Queen worker conflict; Split sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ANT; KIN SELECTION; POLYGYNY; RELATEDNESS; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PHEIDOLE; PHEIDOLE PALLIDULA;

EID: 0038641137     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00341.x     Document Type: Article

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