Workers influence royal reproduction

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1711, 2011, Pages 1524-1531

  Gill, Richard J ^a,b   Hammond, Robert L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conflict resolution; Multiple queen colony; Policing; Skew; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EGG; FITNESS; INSECT; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUEEN; RELATEDNESS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RESOLUTION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL CONFLICT; WORKER CASTE;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; LEPTOTHORAX ACERVORUM;

EID: 79954473672     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1774     Document Type: Article

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