The evolution of invasiveness in garden ants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Cremer, Sylvia ^a,b   Ugelvig, Line V ^a,b   Drijfhout, Falko P ^c   Schlick Steiner, Birgit C ^d,e,f   Steiner, Florian M ^d,e,f   Seifert, Bernhard ^g   Hughes, David P ^a,h   Schulz, Andreas ⁱ   Petersen, Klaus S ^a   Konrad, Heino ^e,j   Stauffer, Christian ^e   Kiran, Kadri ^k   Espadaler, Xavier ^l   D'Ettorre, Patrizia ^a,b   Aktaç, Nihat ^k   Eilenberg, Jørgen ^a   Jones, Graeme R ^c   Nash, David R ^a   Pedersen, Jes S ^a   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

ⁱ Natural Hazards and Landscape ^*

^j FEDERAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTRE FOR FORESTS   (Austria)

^k Trakya University   (Spain)

^l UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON;

ANT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INSECT GENETICS; INSECT SOCIETY; MATING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; URBAN AREA; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ASIA; BEAUVERIA; CHEMISTRY; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NESTING; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WOLBACHIA;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; LASIUS NEGLECTUS;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTS; ASIA; BEAUVERIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HYDROCARBONS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WOLBACHIA;

EID: 57349190221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003838     Document Type: Article

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