Reproductive caste performs intranidal tasks instead of workers in the ant Mystrium oberthueri

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 721-729

  Molet, Mathieu ^a   Peeters, Christian ^a   Follin, Isabelle ^a   Fisher, Brian L ^b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; QUEEN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORKER CASTE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

ANIMALIA; CHILOPODA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MYSTRIUM OBERTHUERI; MYSTRIUM ROGERI;

EID: 34347222535     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01376.x     Document Type: Article

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