Colony fusion causes within-colony variation in a parthenogenetic ant

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 737-746

  Kellner, Katrin ^a   Barth, Benjamin ^a,b   Heinze, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agonistic behavior; Colony takeover; Platythyrea punctata; Replacement; Thelytoky; Within colony relatedness

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ALTRUISM; ANT; COLONY; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; GENOTYPE; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; RELATEDNESS; REPLACEMENT; SOCIAL INSECT; THELYTOKY; WORKER CASTE;

BARBADOS; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC;

HEXAPODA; PLATYTHYREA PUNCTATA;

EID: 77950543517     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0891-6     Document Type: Article

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