Reproductive skew and communal breeding in the subsocial beetle Parastizopus armaticeps

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 427-437

  Heg, Dik ^a,b   Heyl, Stephanie ^c   Rasa, O Anne E ^a,d   Peschke, Klaus ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BREEDING; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL INSECT;

AFRICA; KALAHARI DESERT; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

COLEOPTERA; PARASTIZOPUS ARMATICEPS; TENEBRIONIDAE;

EID: 31844454147     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.06.001     Document Type: Article

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