Taming of the skew: Transactional models fail to predict reproductive partitioning in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 913-923

  Liebert, Aviva E ^a   Starks, Philip T ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; PARTITIONING; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; WASP;

POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; POLISTINAE;

EID: 33645112946     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.09.005     Document Type: Article

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