Diploid males and their triploid offspring in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 200-203

  Liebert, Aviva E ^a   Sumana, Annagiri ^a   Starks, Philip T ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hymenoptera; Reproductive skew; Sex determination; Sex investment ratio

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX RATIO; WASP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; POLISTES DOMINULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEX DETERMINATION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; TRIPLOIDY; WASP;

HYMENOPTERA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; POLISTINAE;

EID: 25444455372     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0284     Document Type: Article

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