Escalated conflict in a social hierarchy

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1604, 2006, Pages 2977-2984

  Cant, M A ^a   English, S ^a   Reeve, H K ^b   Field, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b W363 Mudd Hall ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aggression; Dominance hierarchies; Fighting; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; COLONY STRUCTURE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE; FIGHTING; WASP;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETICS; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WASP;

ANIMALIA; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 34247248384     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3669     Document Type: Article

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