Changes in relative importance of multiple social regulatory forces with colony size in the ant Diacamma sp. from Japan

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2069-2077

  Kikuchi, Tomonori ^a   Nakagawa, Takayuki ^b   Tsuji, Kazuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

colony size; Diacamma sp.; dominance behaviour; policing; queen presence information; self restraint

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION;

DIACAMMA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 56049112980     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.08.029     Document Type: Article

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