Termite queens adjust egg size according to colony development

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1018-1023

  Matsuura, Kenji ^a   Kobayashi, Norimasa ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

egg size; eusocial insects; maternal investment; sociogenesis; termites

Indexed keywords

BROOD REARING; COLONY FOUNDING; EGG SIZE; EUSOCIALITY; HATCHING; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; MATERNAL CARE; OVIPOSITION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; QUEEN; SURVIVORSHIP; TERMITE; TRADE-OFF;

HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; RETICULITERMES SPERATUS;

EID: 77955875050     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq101     Document Type: Article

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