Altruistic colony defense by menopausal female insects

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1182-1186

  Uematsu, Keigo ^a   Kutsukake, Mayako ^b   Fukatsu, Takema ^b   Shimada, Masakazu ^a   Shibao, Harunobu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

EVO ECOL

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APHID; ARTICLE; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE;

APHIDIDAE; CETACEA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA; NIPPONAPHIDINI;

EID: 77955369627     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.04.057     Document Type: Article

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