Parasitism affects worker size in the Neotropical swarm-founding social wasp, Polybia paulista (Hymenoptera, Vespidae)

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 221-225

  Kudo K ^a   Yamane, So ^b   Mateus, S ^c   Tsuchida, K ^a   Ito Y ^d   Miyano, S ^e   Zucchi, R ^c  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d Nat Hist Mus and Institute Chiba ^*  (Japan)

^e NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

External size difference; Gregarinasina; Polybia paulista; Strepsiptera; Swarm founding social wasp

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITISM; SOCIAL INSECT;

GREGARINIA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; POLYBIA; STREPSIPTERA; STYLOPIDAE; VESPIDAE; XENOS;

EID: 4344619172     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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