Reproductive system, social organization, human disturbance and ecological dominance in native populations of the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 5059-5073

  Foucaud, Julien ^a   Orivel, Jérôme ^b   Fournier, Denis ^a,e   Delabie, Jacques H C ^c   Loiseau, Anne ^a   Le Breton, Julien ^b   Cerdan, Philippe ^d   Estoup, Arnaud ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c CEPEC/CEPLAC   (Brazil)

^d Laboratoire Environnement de Petit Saut (HYDRECO)   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biological invasion; Clonality; Human disturbance; Parthenogenesis; Social organization; Wasmannia auropunctata

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ANTS; BRAZIL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FRENCH GUIANA; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

WASMANNIA AUROPUNCTATA;

EID: 71549125622     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04440.x     Document Type: Article

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