Insurance-based advantages for subordinate co-foundresses in a temperate paper wasp

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1524, 2003, Pages 1617-1622

  Shreeves, Gavin ^a   Cant, Michael A ^a,b   Bolton, Alan ^a   Field, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assured fitness returns; Cooperative breeding; Eusociality; Polistes; Wasps

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; RELATEDNESS; WASP;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COOPERATION; FORAGING; NONHUMAN; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REARING; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WASP;

ANIMALIA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; VERTEBRATA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0042030963     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2409     Document Type: Article

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