Direct fitness, reciprocity and helping: A perspective from primitively eusocial wasps

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 160-162

  Field, Jeremy ^a   Cant, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUSOCIALITY; FITNESS; RECIPROCITY; WASP;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; FITNESS; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASP;

EID: 34648843332     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.01.019     Document Type: Note

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