Crossing the taxonomic divide: Conflict and its resolution in societies of reproductively totipotent individuals

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 383-395

  Hart, A G ^a   Ratnieks, F L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dinoponera quadriceps; Heterocephalus glaber; Honest signalling; Ponerinae; Queen replacement; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSECT; SOCIAL THEORY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MOLE RAT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLOIDY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTS; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLE RATS; PLOIDIES; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

DINOPONERA QUADRICEPS; FORMICIDAE; HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 14844345982     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00832.x     Document Type: Review

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