Symbionts of societies that fission: Mites as guests or parasites of army ants

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 684-695

  Berghoff, Stefanie M ^a   Wurst, Eberhard ^b   Ebermann, Ernst ^c   Sendova Franks, Ana B ^d   Rettenmeyer, Carl W ^e   Franks, Nigel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c Inst Zool an Karl Franzens Univ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Army ant; Honey bee; Large homeostatic societies; Mites; Parasite; Social insects; Symbiont; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANT; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; HONEYBEE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MITE; SYMBIONT; VIRULENCE;

ACARI; APIS MELLIFERA; ECITON BURCHELLI; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 70449458028     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01125.x     Document Type: Article

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