Aggression and worker control of caste fate in a multiple-queen wasp, Parachartergus colobopterus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-10

  Platt, Thomas G ^a   Queller, David C ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASP;

COLOBOPTERUS; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PARACHARTERGUS; PARACHARTERGUS COLOBOPTERUS; VESPIDAE;

EID: 1142306104     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.01.005     Document Type: Article

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