Social life-history response to individual immune challenge of workers of Bombus terrestris L.: A possible new cooperative phenomenon

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 146-152

  Moret, Yannick ^a,b   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Immunity; Life history; Parasite resistance; Reproduction; Social insect

Indexed keywords

BEE; EVOLUTION; IMMUNITY; LIFE HISTORY; PARASITE; PARASITE RESISTANCE; SOCIAL INSECT;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 1342290766     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00561.x     Document Type: Article

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