Subordinate wasps are more aggressive in colonies with low reproductive skew

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 879-886

  Fanelli, D ^a,b   Boomsma, J J ^b   Turillazzi, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

microsatellites; Parischnogaster mellyi; primitively eusocial; reproductive transactions; social behaviour; Stenogastrinae; tug of war; wasps

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; EUSOCIALITY; GENETIC MARKER; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; WASP;

HEXAPODA; PARISCHNOGASTER MELLYI; STENOGASTRINAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 39449125026     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.07.009     Document Type: Article

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