Regulation of worker activity in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia cyathiformis

Behaviour

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1219-1234

  Kardile, Sujata P ^a   Gadagkar, Raghavendra ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Dominance behavior; Primitively eusocial wasps; Regulation of worker activity; Ropalidia cyathiformis; Ropalidia marginata; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345801345     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853903771980567     Document Type: Article

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