Cues, concessions, and inheritance: Dominance hierarchies in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 773-780

  Zanette, Lorenzo ^a   Field, Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arrival order; Group formation; Inheritance; Polistes

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; KINSHIP; NESTING BEHAVIOR; WASP;

POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 67651111905     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arp060     Document Type: Article

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