Mechanisms of social regulation change across colony development in an ant

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Moore, Dani ^a   Liebig, Jürgen ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY; CONSPECIFIC; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FERTILITY; FITNESS; GROWTH RATE; HYDROCARBON; LIFE CYCLE; QUEEN; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SOCIAL INSECT; WORKER CASTE;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA; CAMPONOTUS FLORIDANUS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; EGG; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EGGS; FEMALE; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77958512930     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-328     Document Type: Article

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