Lineage specific evolution of an alternative social strategy in Tetramorium ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 247-255

  Schlick Steiner, Birgit C ^a,d   Steiner, Florian M ^a,d   Sanetra, Matthias ^b   Seifert, Bernhard ^c   Christian, Erhard ^a   Stauffer, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Microgyny polygyny; MtDNA; Phylogeography; Population structure; Postglacial colonization; Queen size dimorphism; Social evolution; Tetramorium moravicum; Western Palearctic

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; ANT; EVOLUTION; FRAGMENTATION; MONOGYNY; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYGYNY; QUATERNARY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; TETRAMORIUM; TETRAMORIUM MORAVICUM;

EID: 34447095657     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00798.x     Document Type: Article

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