Abdominal waggings and variation of their rate of occurrence in the social wasp, Polistes dominulus Christ. I. Quantitative analysis

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 665-686

  Brillet, C ^a   Semenoff Tian Chansky, S ^b   Le Conte, Y ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Abdominal waggings; Communication; Evolution over time; Social wasps

Indexed keywords

POLISTES DOMINULUS;

EID: 0343527211     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020979720527     Document Type: Article

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