Low relatedness and frequent queen turnover in the stenogastrine wasp Eustenogaster fraterna favor the life insurance over the haplodiploid hypothesis for the origin of eusociality

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 262-267

  Landi, M ^a   Queller, D C ^a   Turillazzi, S ^b   Strassmann, J E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Life insurance; Microsatellite; Relatedness; Usurpation; Vespidae

Indexed keywords

EUSOCIALITY; QUEEN; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; TURNOVER; WASP;

EUSTENOGASTER FRATERNA; HYMENOPTERA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0042785705     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-003-0676-2     Document Type: Article

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