Specialization in policing behaviour among workers in the ant Pachycondyla inversa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1616, 2007, Pages 1421-1428

  Van Zweden, Jelle S ^a,b   Fürst, Matthias A ^a,b   Heinze, Jürgen ^a   D'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Aggression; Division of labour; Egg eating; Worker policing; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; EGG PREDATION; LABOR DIVISION; POLYETHISM; SOCIAL INSECT; SPECIALIZATION; WORKER POLICING;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; EATING; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; EGG LAYING; NONHUMAN; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PACHYCONDYLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; WORKER;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; PACHYCONDYLA INVERSA; PRIMATES;

EID: 34250835649     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0113     Document Type: Article

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