Are mistakes inevitable? Sex allocation specialization by workers can reduce the genetic information needed to assess queen mating frequency

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 244, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 470-477

  Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a,b   Helanterä, Heikki ^a,c   Foster, Kevin R ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b WISSENSCHAFTSKOLLEG ZU BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conflict; Mating frequency; Recognition allele; Sex ratio; Sex ratio specialization

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; MATING BEHAVIOR; QUEEN; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER CASTE;

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT; MALE; MATING; MATING SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; ODORS; SEX; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

INSECTA;

EID: 33845891328     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.09.003     Document Type: Article

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