Scaling of body weight and fat content in fungus-gardening ant queens: Does this explain why leaf-cutting ants found claustrally?

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 135-141

  Seal, J N ^a,b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atta; Claustral founding; Fat content; Life history evolution; Trachymyrmex

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ANT; BIOENERGETICS; CLADISTICS; COLONY STRUCTURE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LIFE HISTORY; PHYLOGENY; QUEEN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ATTA; ATTINI; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; TRACHYMYRMEX;

EID: 70349491122     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-009-0002-8     Document Type: Article

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