Lack of physical policing and fertility cues in egg-laying workers of the ant Camponotus floridanus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1171-1180

  Endler, Annett ^a   Hölldobler, Bert ^a,b   Liebig, Jürgen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camponotus floridanus; carpenter ant; cost; cuticular hydrocarbon; reproductive conflict; worker policing; worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EGG; FERTILITY; GROUP SIZE; HYDROCARBON; LABOR DIVISION; QUEEN; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTION; WORKER CASTE;

CAMPONOTUS; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS;

EID: 35748942596     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.10.031     Document Type: Article

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