"Winter" aggregations, colony cycle, and seasonal phenotypic change in the paper wasp Polistes versicolor in subtropical Brazil

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 93, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 487-494

  Gobbi, Nivar ^a   Noll, Fernando B ^a   Penna, Marcelo A H ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Caste differences; Life cycle; Paper wasps; Polistes; Winter congregations

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COLONY STRUCTURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES COMPLEX; SUBTROPICAL REGION; WASP;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; LIFE CYCLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PHENOTYPE; POLISTES VERSICOLOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; WASP; WINTER;

ANIMALS; BRAZIL; FEMALE; HEAD; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; SEASONS; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WASPS;

BRAZIL; SOUTH AMERICA;

POLISTES; POLISTES VERSICOLOR; POLISTINAE;

EID: 33748696164     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-006-0140-z     Document Type: Article

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