Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Chenoweth, Luke B ^a   Tierney, Simon M ^b   Smith, Jaclyn A ^a   Cooper, Steven J B ^c   Schwarz, Michael P ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEE; COLONY FORMATION; EVOLUTION; LIFESPAN; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HALTERAPIS NIGRINERVIS; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; MELIPONINAE; MYA; VESPIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 38849113180     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-246     Document Type: Article

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