How many gamergates is an ant queen worth?

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 109-116

  Monnin, Thibaud ^a   Peeters, Christian ^a  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Colony size; Dispersal; Fission; Monogyny; Polygyny; Queenless ants

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GAMERGATE; MONOGYNY; MORPHOLOGY; POLYGYNY; QUEEN; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

ANT; ANT QUEEN; ARTICLE; COLONY FORMATION; COLONY SIZE; FERTILITY; GAMERGATE; GENETIC LINKAGE; MONOGYNY; MORPHOLOGICAL ADAPTATION; NONHUMAN; POLYGYNY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIOBIOLOGY; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FEMALE; GERM CELLS; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 38049023152     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-007-0297-0     Document Type: Article

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