Conflict over sex ratio and male production in paper wasps

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 468-480

  Tsuchida, Koji ^a   Suzuki, Tadashi ^b  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; KIN SELECTION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; PHEROMONE; RELATEDNESS; SCENT MARKING; SEX RATIO; WASP; WORKER CASTE; WORKER POLICING;

DOLICHOVESPULA; POLISTES; POLISTINAE;

EID: 33846863361     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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