How many soldiers are optimal for an aphid colony?

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 313-317

  Aoki, Shigeyuki ^a   Kurosu, Utako ^b  

^a RISSHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b 352 0011   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aphid soldier; Logistic model; Nash equilibrium; Optimal strategy

Indexed keywords

APHID; COLONY FOUNDING; COLONY STRUCTURE;

APHID; ARTICLE; INSECT SOCIETY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

APHIDIDAE;

EID: 4143085218     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.05.019     Document Type: Article

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