The role of male disease susceptibility in the evolution of haplodiploid insect societies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1542, 2004, Pages 979-983

  O'Donnell, Sean ^a   Beshers, Samuel N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Haplodiploidy; Hymenoptera; Male social behaviour; Parasite pathogen resistance; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EVOLUTION; HAPLODIPLOIDY; MALE BEHAVIOR; PARASITE RESISTANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

BEHAVIOR; DIPLOIDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EVOLUTION; HAPLOIDY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; HYMENOPTERA; INFECTION; INSECT SOCIETY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 2342566432     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2685     Document Type: Review

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