Altruistic defenders in a Japanese gall-forming aphid, Quadrartus yoshinomiyai (Homoptera: Aphididae: Hormaphidinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 711-724

  Uematsu, Keigo ^a   Kutsukake, Mayako ^b   Fukatsu, Takema ^b   Shimada, Masakazu ^a   Shibao, Harunobu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Colony defense; Gall; Quadrartus yoshinomiyai; Social aphid; Soldier

Indexed keywords

APHIDIDAE; DISTYLIUM RACEMOSUM; HEMIPTERA; HORMAPHIDIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 35948963634     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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