Inbreeding depression and family variation in a social insect, Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Oikos

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 67-80

  Gerloff, Christine U ^a   Schmid Hempel, Paul ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; FITNESS; INBREEDING DEPRESSION; SOCIAL INSECT;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; DELTA (WASP); HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA;

EID: 26444503699     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13980.x     Document Type: Article

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