Queen pheromones in Temnothorax ants: Control or honest signal?

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Brunner, Elisabeth ^a   Kroiss, Johannes ^a,b   Trindl, Andreas ^a   Heinze, Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARMS RACE; BIOCHEMISTRY; COLONY; CUTICLE; DIVERGENCE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FECUNDITY; FERTILITY; HONEST SIGNALING; HYDROCARBON; LABOR DIVISION; PHEROMONE; QUEEN; REPRODUCTIVE STATUS; WORKER CASTE;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; TEMNOTHORAX;

HYDROCARBON; ISOENZYME; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EGG LAYING; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETICS; MALE; OVARY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HYDROCARBONS; ISOENZYMES; MALE; OVARY; OVIPOSITION; PHEROMONES;

EID: 79952092599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-55     Document Type: Article

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