Elite workers and the colony-level pattern of labor division in the yellow jacket wasp, vespula germanica

Behaviour

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 827-845

  Hurd, Christine R ^a   Nordheim, Erik V ^a   Jeanne, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 0242457667     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853903770238337     Document Type: Article

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