Visual signals of individual identity in the wasp Polistes fuscatus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1499, 2002, Pages 1423-1428

  Tibbetts, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance hierarchies; Individual recognition; Insect vision; Pattern recognition; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL CUE; WASP;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION; WASP;

ABDOMEN; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FACE; FEMALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISION; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; POLISTES; POLISTES FUSCATUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; VESPIDAE;

EID: 41049089186     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2031     Document Type: Article

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