Split Sex Ratios in Perennial Social Hymenoptera: A Mixed Evolutionary Stable Strategy from the Queens' Perspective?

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 624-637

  Roisin, Yves ^a   Aron, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ants; Hymenoptera; Kin selection; Queen worker conflict; Sex allocation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; QUEEN; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMAL; ANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANTS; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

EID: 0344287229     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378704     Document Type: Review

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