Worker policing by egg eating in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla inversa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue 1546, 2004, Pages 1427-1434

  D'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a   Heinze, Jürgen ^a   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Egg discrimination; Pachycondyla inversa; Reproductive conflicts; Worker policing

Indexed keywords

ALKANE DERIVATIVE; HYDROCARBON;

ANT; COLONY; EGG; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL CASTE; ANT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; EGG LAYING; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SKILL;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PACHYCONDYLA; PACHYCONDYLA INVERSA;

EID: 3042844402     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2742     Document Type: Article

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