Beneficial laggards: Multilevel selection, cooperative polymorphism and division of labour in threshold public good games

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Boza, Gergely ^a,b   Szmadá, Szabolcs ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE ACTION; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; FITNESS; HUNTING; NONLINEARITY; POLYMORPHISM; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SELECTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; GAME; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN;

ANIMALS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GAME THEORY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 77958590176     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-10-336     Document Type: Article

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