Location, location, location: Larvae position inside the nest is correlated with adult body size in worker bumble-bees (Bombus impatiens)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1666, 2009, Pages 2411-2418

  Couvillon, Margaret J ^a   Dornhaus, Anna ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Alloethism; Bombus impatiens; Bumble bees; Division of labour; Size polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEE; BODY SIZE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LABOR DIVISION; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM; PUPA; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING ECOLOGY; LARVA; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE);

BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS IMPATIENS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 66749156064     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0172     Document Type: Article

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