Sex allocation conflict in ants: When the queen rules

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 328-331

  Rosset, Hervé ^a   Chapuisat, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFLICT; FEMALE; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PLOIDY; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PLOIDIES; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SWITZERLAND;

FORMICA SELYSI; FORMICIDAE; INSECTA;

EID: 31944452176     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.12.036     Document Type: Article

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