Mating success and potential male-worker conflict in a male-dimorphic ant

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schrempf, Alexandra ^a   Darrouzet, Eric ^b   Heinze, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CARDIOCONDYLA OBSCURIOR; COMPETITION; CONFLICT; FEMALE; FITNESS; FORELIMB; INSECT SOCIETY; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SURVIVAL; WORKER; ANIMAL; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

CARDIOCONDYLA OBSCURIOR; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; LONGEVITY; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 34547657386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-114     Document Type: Article

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