Queuing for dominance: Gerontocracy and queue-jumping in the hover wasp Liostenogaster flavolineata

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1253-1259

  Bridge, Catherine ^a   Field, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Convention; Dominance; Eusocial; Inheritance; Wasp

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CHEATING BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; HERITABILITY; RELATEDNESS; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

LIOSTENOGASTER FLAVOLINEATA;

EID: 34248339933     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-007-0355-9     Document Type: Article

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