Queen-worker conflicts over male production and sex allocation in a primitively eusocial wasp

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2365-2373

  Tsuchida, Koji ^a   Saigo, Takaharu ^a   Nagata, Norio ^a   Tsujita, Sumiko ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuki ^a   Miyano, Shinya ^b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colony size; Microsatellite; Policing; Polistes chinensis antennalis; Production schedule; Sex allocation ratio; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

EUSOCIALITY; QUEEN; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER POLICING;

ANIMALIA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; POLISTES; POLISTES CHINENSIS; POLISTES CHINENSIS ANTENNALIS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0242583838     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00248.x     Document Type: Article

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