The worldwide expansion of the Argentine ant

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 170-186

  Vogel, Valérie ^a   Pedersen, Jes S ^a,b   Giraud, Tatiana ^a,c   Krieger, Michael J B ^a,d   Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Genetic bottlenecks; Invasion history; Linepithema humile; Social insects; Supercolonies

Indexed keywords

ANT; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; PROPAGULE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOCIAL INSECT; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 74549219419     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00630.x     Document Type: Article

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