Polydomy in ants: What we know, what we think we know, and what remains to be done

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 319-348

  Debout, Gabriel ^a   Schatz, Bertrand ^b   Elias, Marianne ^c   Mckey, Doyle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ecological constraints; Formicidae; Number of queens; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY FOUNDING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MONOGYNY; NATURAL SELECTION; POLYGYNY;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 33846671382     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00728.x     Document Type: Review

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