Genetic caste determination does not impose growth rate costs in Pogonomyrmex harvester ants

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 301-309

  Cahan, Sara Helms ^a   Daly, Amanda B ^a   Schwander, Tanja ^b   Arthur Woods, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Caste determination; Development; Life history trade off; Metabolic rate

Indexed keywords

ANT; EUSOCIALITY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; LABORATORY METHOD; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METABOLISM; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION DENSITY; QUEEN; RESPIRATION; STARVATION; TAXONOMY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS; POGONOMYRMEX RUGOSUS;

EID: 77950252098     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01629.x     Document Type: Article

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