Fitness costs and benefits of ant attendance and soldier production for the social aphid Pseudoregma bambucicola (Homoptera: Aphididae: Hormaphidinae)

Sociobiology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 673-698

  Shibao, Harunobu ^a   Morimoto, Masahiro ^b   Okumura, Yukako ^a   Shimada, Masakazu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ant attendance; Cost benefit analysis; Mutualism; Social aphid; Soldier

Indexed keywords

APHIDIDAE; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HORMAPHIDIDAE; PSEUDOREGMA BAMBUCICOLA;

EID: 72549084186     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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