Storage protein content as a functional marker for colony-founding strategies: A comparative study within the harvester ant genus Pogonomyrmex

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 100-108

  Hahn, Daniel A ^a,c   Johnson, Robert A ^b   Buck, Norman A ^a   Wheeler, Diana E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN;

ANT; BIOENERGETICS; COLONY FOUNDING; PROTEIN; QUEEN;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; ANTS; BODY COMPOSITION; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; PROTEINS; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX ANERGISMUS; POGONOMYRMEX CALIFORNICUS; POGONOMYRMEX MARICOPA; POGONOMYRMEX OCCIDENTALIS; POGONOMYRMEX RUGOSUS;

EID: 1942422224     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380214     Document Type: Article

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