Cheater genotypes in the parthenogenetic ant Pristomyrmex punctatus

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1656, 2009, Pages 567-574

  Dobata, Shigeto ^a   Sasaki, Tomonori ^b   Mori, Hideaki ^c   Hasegawa, Eisuke ^d   Shimada, Masakazu ^a   Tsuji, Kazuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emery's rule; Evolutionary cheating; Parthenogenesis; Pristomyrmex punctatus; Pristomyrmex pungens; Social cancer

Indexed keywords

ANT; COEXISTENCE; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; LABOR DIVISION; LIFE HISTORY; PARTHENOGENESIS; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; INSECT SOCIETY; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; PRISTOMYRMEX PUNCTATUS; PRISTOMYRMEX PUNGENS;

EID: 58149126018     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1215     Document Type: Article

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