Split sex ratios in the social Hymenoptera: A meta-analysis

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 382-390

  Meunier, Joël ^a   West, Stuart A ^b   Chapuisat, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meta analysis; Queen worker conflict; Relatedness asymmetry; Sex allocation; Social insects; Split sex ratio

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEE; KIN SELECTION; META-ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELATEDNESS; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL INSECT; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); THEORETICAL STUDY; WASP;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 49449092669     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arm143     Document Type: Article

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