Experimental manipulation of queen number affects colony sex ratio investment in the highly polygynous ant Formica exsecta

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1574, 2005, Pages 1789-1794

  Kümmerli, Rolf ^a   Helms, Ken R ^a,b   Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Local resource competition; Polygyny; Queen replenishment hypothesis; Sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ANT; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POLYGYNY; QUEEN; SEX RATIO;

ANT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; COLONY FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYGYNY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX RATIO;

FORMICA EXSECTA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 26244445779     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3163     Document Type: Article

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