Selection on defensive traits in a sterile caste - Caste evolution: A mechanism to overcome life-history trade-offs?

Evolution and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 80-87

  Roux, Estelle A ^a   Roux, Maurice ^b   Korb, Judith ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIFE HISTORY; TERMITE; TRADE-OFF;

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HEAD; HISTOLOGY; ISOPTERA; MORPHOMETRICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; EVOLUTION; HEAD; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; ISOPTERA; PHENOTYPE; SELECTION (GENETICS);

CRYPTOTERMES; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA;

EID: 58549109253     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2008.00304.x     Document Type: Article

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