Queen number influences the timing of the sexual production in colonies of Cardiocondyla ants

Biology Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 670-673

  Suefuji, Masaki ^a   Cremer, Sylvia ^a   Oettler, Jan ^a   Heinze, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emergence order; Fatal fighting; Formicidae; Local mate competition

Indexed keywords

ANT; BROOD SIZE; COLONIZATION; CUTICLE; EMERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; LIFE CYCLE; QUEEN; SOCIAL INSECT; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANT; ARTICLE; INSECT SOCIETY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE CYCLE; MATE CHOICE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEEN (INSECT); REARING; REPRODUCTION;

CARDIOCONDYLA; CARDIOCONDYLA MINUTIOR; CARDIOCONDYLA OBSCURIOR; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 58149216523     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2008.0355     Document Type: Article

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