The queen is dead - Long live the workers: Intraspecific parasitism by workers in the stingless bee Melipona scutellaris

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 4102-4111

  Alves, D A ^a   Imperatriz Fonseca, V L ^a   Francoy, T M ^a   Santos Filho, P S ^a   Nogueira Neto, P ^a   Billen, J ^b   Wenseleers, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Meliponini; Reproductive conflict; Social insects; Social parasitism; Stingless bees; Worker reproduction

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; PARASITE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PARASITES; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; MELIPONA SCUTELLARIS; MELIPONINAE;

EID: 70349322888     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04323.x     Document Type: Article

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