Relationships between phenotype, mating behavior, and fitness of queens in the ant Lasius niger

Evolution

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1056-1063

  Fjerdingstad, Else J ^a,b   Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Mating frequency; Natural selection; Polyandry; Social insects; Sperm

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; MATING BEHAVIOR; MULTIPLE MATING; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LASIUS; LASIUS NIGER;

EID: 2442529017     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb00439.x     Document Type: Article

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