Grooming interaction and reproductive status among queens in functionally polygynous colonies of the ant Myrmica kotokui (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 443-457

  Kikuchi, Tomonori ^a   Azuma, Noriko ^b   Higashi, Seigo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Grooming; Myrmica kotokui; Polygynous colony; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; MYRMICA; MYRMICA KOTOKUI;

EID: 4644221684     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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