Size-correlated division of labour and spatial distribution of workers in the driver ant, Dorylus molestus

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 277-281

  Braendle, Christian ^a,c   Hockley, Neal ^a   Brevig, Thomas ^b   Shingleton, Alexander W ^c   Keller, Laurent ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; LABOR DIVISION; POLYMORPHISM; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; WORK;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BODY CONSTITUTION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; DORYLUS MOLESTUS; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0038684783     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0426-3     Document Type: Article

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