Evolution: Plastic sociality in a sweat bee

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Chapuisat, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; HALICTINAE;

EID: 78649255756     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.033     Document Type: Short Survey

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