The queen is not a pacemaker in the small-colony wasps Polistes instabilis and P. dominulus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1197-1203

  Jha, Shalene ^a   Casey Ford, Rowan G ^a   Pedersen, Jes S ^a,b   Platt, Thomas G ^a   Cervo, Rita ^c   Queller, David C ^a   Strassmann, Joan E ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY; DIMORPHISM; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASP;

INSECTA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES INSTABILIS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 33646269044     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.11.005     Document Type: Article

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