Rearing conditions influence quality signals but not individual identity signals in Polistes wasps

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 602-607

  Tibbetts, Elizabeth A ^a   Curtis, Tracy R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Badge of status; Condition dependence; Individual recognition; Paper wasps; Passer domesticus; Signal properties

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COLOR MORPH; FOOD AVAILABILITY; PIGMENT; PREDICTION; REARING; SIGNALING; WASP;

ANIMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 34548387859     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm013     Document Type: Article

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