Division of labour and colony efficiency in social insects: Effects of interactions between genetic architecture, colony kin structure and rate of perturbations

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1595, 2006, Pages 1815-1823

  Waibel, Markus ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a   Magnenat, Stéphane ^a   Keller, Laurent ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Division of labour; Polyethism; Response thresholds; Task allocation

Indexed keywords

COLONY; KIN SELECTION; LABOR DIVISION; PHENOTYPE; POLYETHISM; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER CASTE;

ARTICLE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INSECT SOCIETY; INSECT SWARM; ORGANISM COLONY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOME; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; GENOME, INSECT; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33747380247     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3513     Document Type: Article

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