Social wasps desert the colony and aggregate outside if parasitized: Parasite manipulation?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1037-1043

  Hughes, David P ^a,c   Kathirithamby, Jeyaraney ^a   Turillazzi, Stefano ^b   Beani, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Behavioral manipulation; Nest desertion; Polistes; Strepsiptera

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; PARASITISM; SOCIAL INSECT;

HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; STREPSIPTERA; STYLOPIDAE; VESPIDAE; XENOS; XENOS VESPARUM;

EID: 3042616130     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh111     Document Type: Article

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