Future fitness and helping in social queues

Nature

Volumn 441, Issue 7090, 2006, Pages 214-217

  Field, Jeremy ^a   Cronin, Adam ^a   Bridge, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COSTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BREEDING ANIMAL SOCIETIES; EGG-LAYING POSITION; FUNDAMENTAL TRADE-OFFS; OFFSPRING;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EUSOCIALITY; KIN SELECTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; COOPERATION; EGG LAYING; FERTILITY; FITNESS; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT SOCIETY; LIOSTENOGASTER FLAVOLINEATA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; WASP;

ANIMALIA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LIOSTENOGASTER FLAVOLINEATA; STENOGASTRINAE;

EID: 33646555113     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04560     Document Type: Article

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