Reproductive sharing among queens in the ant Formica fusca

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 870-875

  Hannonen, Minttumaaria ^a,b   Sundström, Liselotte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b TURKU CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ant; Formica fusca; Multiple queens; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

ANT; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DOMINANCE; QUEEN; RELATEDNESS; SKEWNESS;

ANIMALIA; FORMICA; FORMICA FUSCA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 1642546964     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arg069     Document Type: Article

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