Dominance behaviour and regulation of foraging in the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata (Lep.) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 100-103

  Bruyndonckx, Nadia ^a,c   Kardile, Sujata P ^a   Gadagkar, Raghavendra ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dominance behaviour; Primitively eusocial wasp; Regulation of foraging; Ropalidia marginata

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FOOD; FORAGING; HYMENOPTERA; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ROPALIDIA MARGINATA; WASP;

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; INDIA; MOTIVATION; SATIETY RESPONSE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; HYMENOPTERA; ROPALIDIA MARGINATA; VESPIDAE;

EID: 32344441224     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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