Life history traits of a European Messor harvester ant

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 360-365

  Schlick Steiner, B C ^a   Steiner, F M ^a   Stauffer, C ^a   Buschinger, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Colony delimitation; Development of sexuals; Mating and dispersal strategy; Messor; Queen number

Indexed keywords

ANT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATING BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; MESSOR; MESSOR STRUCTOR;

EID: 28544441981     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-005-0819-8     Document Type: Article

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