Worker oviposition and policing behaviour in the myrmicine ant Aphaenogaster smythiesi japonica forel

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 513-519

  Iwanishi, Satoru ^a   Hasegawa, Eisuke ^b   Ohkawara, Kyohsuke ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; EUSOCIALITY; OVIPOSITION; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

APHAENOGASTER; APHAENOGASTER SMYTHIESI; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; JAPONICA;

EID: 0042786560     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2222     Document Type: Article

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