A cheater lineage in a social insect. Implications for the evolution of cooperation in the wild

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 67-70

  Dobata, Shigeto ^a   Tsuji, Kazuki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cheating; Genetic assimilation; Major evolutionary transitions; Multilevel selection; Pristomyrmex punctatus; Social insects; Social microbes; Transmissible cancer

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; PRISTOMYRMEX PUNCTATUS;

EID: 67650647530     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.7466     Document Type: Article

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