Social Evolution: Reincarnation, Free-Riding and Inexplicable Modes of Reproduction

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Sumner, Seirian ^a   Keller, Laurent ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARTHENOGENESIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 40149102796     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.01.004     Document Type: Short Survey

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