Adaptive dynamic resource allocation in annual eusocial insects: Environmental variation will not necessarily promote graded control

BMC Ecology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mitesser, Oliver ^a   Weissel, Norbert ^a   Strohm, Erhard ^b   Poethke, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; HALICTIDAE; HEXAPODA; LASIOGLOSSUM MALACHURUM;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 39049112470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6785-7-16     Document Type: Article

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