Sex allocation in fungus-growing ants: Worker or queen control without symbiont-induced female bias

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Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1892-1906

  Dijkstra, Michiel B ^a,b   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTIVAR; FUNGUS; METABOLISM; QUEEN; RELATEDNESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX ALLOCATION; SEX RATIO; SYMBIONT; WORKER CASTE;

ACROMYRMEX; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; SERICOMYRMEX; TRACHYMYRMEX;

EID: 57649216466     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2008.16822.x     Document Type: Article

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