A unique strategy of host colony exploitation in a parasitic ant: Workers of Polyrhachis lama rear their brood in neighbouring host nests

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 40-43

  Maschwitz, U ^a   Go, C ^a   Kaufmann, E ^a   Buschinger, A ^b  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; REARING; SOCIAL PARASITISM;

ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT SOCIETY; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; REARING; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MOVEMENT; OVIPOSITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

DIACAMMA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; POLYRHACHIS LAMA;

EID: 0442307423     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0487-3     Document Type: Article

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