Queen fertility, egg marking and colony size in the ant Camponotus floridanus

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 490-499

  Endler, Annett ^a   Liebig, Jürgen ^a   Hölldobler, Bert ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Cuticular hydrocarbons; Formicidae; Honest signaling; Pheromone; Queen signal; Worker policing

Indexed keywords

ANT; EGG; FERTILITY; QUEEN; SIGNALING; SOCIAL INSECT;

CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 30944468765     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-005-0073-0     Document Type: Article

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