Only full-sibling families evolved eusociality

Nature

Volumn 471, Issue 7339, 2011, Pages

  Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a   Beekman, Madeleine ^b   Cornwallis, Charlie K ^c   Griffin, Ashleigh S ^c   Holman, Luke ^a   Hughes, William O H ^d   Keller, Laurent ^e   Oldroyd, Benjamin P ^b   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; BREEDING; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SIBLING; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS, POPULATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX RATIO; SIBLINGS;

EID: 79953056657     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09832     Document Type: Note

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