Colony founding by pleometrosis in the semiclaustral seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1189-1200

  Johnson, Robert A ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BROOD SIZE; COLONY FOUNDING; FOOD AVAILABILITY; POLYGYNY; QUEEN; SURVIVAL;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX CALIFORNICUS;

EID: 6044263650     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.11.021     Document Type: Article

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