Worker caste polymorphism has a genetic basis in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 100, Issue 16, 2003, Pages 9394-9397

  Hughes, William O H ^a   Sumner, Seirian ^a,c   Van Borm, Steven ^b   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; INSECT SOCIETY; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ENVIRONMENT; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACROMYRMEX; ACROMYRMEX ECHINATIOR; ARACHNIDA; ATTA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 0042424625     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1633701100     Document Type: Article

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