Polymorphic social organization in an ant

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1677, 2009, Pages 4423-4431

  Gill, Richard J ^a   Arce, Andres ^a   Keller, Laurent ^b   Hammond, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Colony structure; Functional monogyny; Leptothorax acervorum; Multiple queen; Polygyny; Reproductive skew

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MONOGYNY; POLYGYNY; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANT; ARTICLE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); LEPTOTHORAX ACERVORUM; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; POLYGYNY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUEEN (INSECT); REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

SPAIN;

LEPTOTHORAX ACERVORUM;

EID: 72749123147     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1408     Document Type: Article

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