Cryptic plasticity underlies a major evolutionary transition

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2028-2031

  Field, Jeremy ^a   Paxton, Robert J ^b,c   Soro, Antonella ^b   Bridge, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HALICTINAE; HALICTUS RUBICUNDUS; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 78649308665     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.020     Document Type: Article

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