Kin discrimination and altruism in the larvae of a solitary insect

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1599, 2006, Pages 2381-2386

  Lizé, Anne ^a   Carval, Dominique ^a   Cortesero, Anne Marie ^a   Fournet, Sylvain ^b   Poinsot, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Aleochara bilineata; Green beard effect; Kin discrimination; Label; Self referent phenotype matching; Superparasitism

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; INSECT; KIN RECOGNITION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; PARASITISM; PHENOTYPE;

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLEOPTERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FITNESS; FLY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; KIN SELECTION; LARVA; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; STARVATION; SUPERPARASITISM;

ALEOCHARA BILINEATA; ANIMALIA; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; STAPHYLINIDAE;

EID: 33748675064     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3598     Document Type: Article

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