Age and task efficiency in the ant Pheidole dentata: young minor workers are not specialist nurses

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 911-918

  Muscedere, Mario L ^a   Willey, Tara A ^b   Traniello, James F A ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioural development; caste evolution; division of labour; Formicidae; Hymenoptera; Pheidole dentata; repertoire expansion; temporal polyethism

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYETHISM; QUEEN; WORKER CASTE;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PHEIDOLE DENTATA;

EID: 62149141750     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.018     Document Type: Article

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