Testing the importance of the distribution of worker sizes to colony performance in the ant species Formica obscuripes forel

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-117

  Billick, I ^a   Carter, C ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Caste distribution function; Eusociality; Worker size distribution

Indexed keywords

ANT; BODY SIZE; COLONY; COLONY STRUCTURE; EUSOCIALITY; HOMEOSTASIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER CASTE;

CUCUMIS MELO VAR. INODORUS; FORMICA OBSCURIPES; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 34248217667     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-007-0918-9     Document Type: Article

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