Queen-worker differences in spermatheca reservoir of phylogenetically basal ants

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 326, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 169-178

  Gobin, Bruno ^a,b,d   Ito, Fuminori ^b   Peeters, Christian ^c   Billen, Johan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^d PCFruit Royal Research Station of Gorsem   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ants; Dimorphism; Haplodiploidy; Hymenoptera; Mating; Sperm storage

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CASTE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ARTICLE; COLUMNAR EPITHELIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; GENITAL SYSTEM; HISTOLOGY; INVAGINATION; MATING; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; OSMOREGULATION; OVARY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SPERM PRESERVATION; SPERMATHECA GLAND; WORKER;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; MALE; OVUM; SPERMATOZOA;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 33746777158     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-006-0232-2     Document Type: Article

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