Direct assessment of queen quality and lack of worker suppression in a paper wasp

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1570, 2005, Pages 1339-1344

  Liebig, Jürgen ^a   Monnin, Thibaud ^b,c   Turillazzi, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Conflict; Honest signalling; Oophagy; Parental manipulation; Polistes; Self restraint

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; HONEST SIGNALING; QUEEN; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; WASP;

ARTICLE; EGG LAYING; FEMALE FERTILITY; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WASP; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; ITALY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALIA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; ITALY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VIDEO RECORDING; WASPS;

EID: 24044537937     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3073     Document Type: Article

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