Kin selection and eusociality

Nature

Volumn 471, Issue 7339, 2011, Pages

  Strassmann, Joan E ^a   Page Jr , Robert E ^b   Robinson, Gene E ^c   Seeley, Thomas D ^d  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; EUSOCIALITY; FITNESS; HAPLOIDY; KIN SELECTION; MATE CHOICE; MATING; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIBLING; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ALTRUISM; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GAME THEORY; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HEREDITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEX RATIO;

EID: 79953060622     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09833     Document Type: Note

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