Colony genetic structure in a facultatively eusocial hover wasp

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 873-880

  Bolton, Alan ^a   Sumner, Seirian ^a,b   Shreeves, Gavin ^a   Casiraghi, Maurizio ^a,c   Field, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eusociality; Parischnogaster; Relatedness; Reproductive skew; Stenogastrinae

Indexed keywords

COLONY; EUSOCIALITY; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; NEST; NESTING; WASP;

ANIMALIA; PARISCHNOGASTER; PARISCHNOGASTER ALTERNATA; STENOGASTRINAE;

EID: 33749532998     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl020     Document Type: Article

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