Tug-of-war over reproduction in a social bee

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6985, 2004, Pages 844-847

  Langer, Philipp ^a   Hogendoorn, Katja ^b,c   Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

REPRODUCTIVE DIVISION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION;

BIODIVERSITY;

BEE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMAL REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; ANIMAL SOCIETY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; BEES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HEREDITY; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 1942499420     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02431     Document Type: Article

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