Energetic basis of colonial living in social insects

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3634-3638

  Hou, Chen ^a,b   Kaspari, Michael ^c,d   Vander Zanden, Hannah B ^b   Gillooly, James F ^b  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Allometry; Colony; Metabolic theory of ecology; Metabolism; Scaling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; COLONIAL SPECIES; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ENERGY TRANSFER; INSECT SOCIETY; LIFE HISTORY; LIFESPAN; METABOLIC RATE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; ORGANIZATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL; THEORY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEES; ECOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION; INSECTS; ISOPTERA; LONGEVITY; WASPS;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77649268342     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0908071107     Document Type: Article

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