Reproductive constraint is a developmental mechanism that maintains social harmony in advanced ant societies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 46, 2008, Pages 17884-17889

  Khila, Abderrahman ^a   Abouheif, Ehab ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conflict; Oogenesis; Vasa nanos; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EGG PRODUCTION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANTS; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; INSECT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OOCYTES; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

FORMICIDAE; FORMICINAE; MYRMICINAE;

EID: 56649124767     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0807351105     Document Type: Article

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