Polistes nest founding behavior: A model for the selective maintenance of alternative behavioral phenotypes

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 43, Issue 5-6, 2006, Pages 456-467

  Starks, Philip T ^a   Fefferman, Nina H ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY FOUNDING; CONDITION FACTOR; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SOCIAL INSECT; SURVIVORSHIP; WASP;

POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS;

EID: 33846878049     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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