How do workers of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata detect the presence of their queens?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 246, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 574-582

  Bhadra, Anindita ^a   Iyer, Priya L ^a   Sumana, A ^a   Deshpande, Sujata A ^a   Ghosh, Saubhik ^a   Gadagkar, Raghavendra ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Dijkstra's algorithm; Potential queen; Queen pheromone; Relay interactions; Rub abdomen behaviour

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ALGORITHM; COLONY; DOMINANCE; MORPHOLOGY; PHEROMONE; QUEEN; SIGNALING; WASP;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROPALIDIA MARGINATA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WASP;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHEROMONES; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WASPS;

HEXAPODA; ROPALIDIA MARGINATA;

EID: 34247586647     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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