First evidence for slave rebellion: Enslaved ant workers systematically kill the brood of their social parasite Protomognathus americanus

Evolution

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1068-1075

  Achenbach, Alexandra ^a   Foitzik, Susanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arms race; Brood parasites; Coevolution; Host defenses; Slave making ants

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANT; ANTIPARASITE DEFENSE; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; COLONIZATION; EGG; QUEEN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE;

AVES; FORMICIDAE; PROTOMOGNATHUS AMERICANUS; TEMNOTHORAX;

EID: 62749111483     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00591.x     Document Type: Article

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