Social Evolution: Daily Self-Sacrifice by Worker Ants

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Bourke, Andrew F G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; BRAZIL; EVOLUTION; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WORK;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAZIL; EVOLUTION; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; INDIVIDUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORK;

FORMICIDAE;

EID: 57049135184     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.016     Document Type: Short Survey

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