Complex social behaviour derived from maternal reproductive traits

Nature

Volumn 439, Issue 7072, 2006, Pages 76-78

  Amdam, Gro V ^a,b   Csondes, Angela ^c   Fondrk, M Kim ^a   Page Jr , Robert E ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SUBSTRATES;

BIOLOGICAL REPRODUCTION; EVOLUTIONARY MODELS; EVOLUTIONARY ORIGINS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HONEYBEE; INSECT SOCIETY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 30144433853     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04340     Document Type: Article

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