Social stability and helping in small animal societies

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1533, 2009, Pages 3181-3189

  Field, Jeremy ^a   Cant, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group stability; Helping; Polistes; Reproductive skew; Social aggression; Social queues

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; EUSOCIALITY; FISH; FITNESS; GROUP BEHAVIOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; WASP;

ANIMALIA; PISCES; POLISTES; POLISTINAE;

EID: 72649099986     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0110     Document Type: Article

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