Helping effort in primitively eusocial wasps

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 481-487

  Field, Jeremy ^a   Cant, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; COLONIAL BREEDING; DOMINANCE; FITNESS; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

LIOSTENOGASTER FLAVOLINEATA; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 33846865321     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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