Transactional skew and assured fitness return models fail to predict patterns of cooperation in wasps

American Naturalist

Volumn 167, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 467-480

  Nonacs, Peter ^a   Liebert, Aviva E ^b   Starks, Philip T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeding; Haplodiploidy; Liostenogaster; Polistes; Reproductive skew; Wasps

Indexed keywords

INCLUSIVE FITNESS; KIN RECOGNITION; PARTHENOGENESIS; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIOBIOLOGY; WASP;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; WASPS;

LIOSTENOGASTER; POLISTES;

EID: 33646002368     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501168     Document Type: Review

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