Maternal investment in egg production in ponerine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

African Entomology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 151-156

  Villet, M H ^a,c   Feneron R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^c RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

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