Fitness consequences of ecological constraints and implications for the evolution of sociality in an incipiently social bee

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-67

  Rehan, Sandra M ^a   Schwarz, Michael P ^b   Richards, Miriam H ^a  

^a BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Parasite pressure; Polymorphism; Resource limitation; Small carpenter; Temporal variation

Indexed keywords

BEE; BROOD REARING; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FITNESS; NEST SITE; POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL PARASITISM; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WASP;

APOIDEA; CERATINA AUSTRALENSIS; CHALCIDIDAE; EURYTOMA; XYLOCOPINAE;

EID: 79954615166     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01642.x     Document Type: Article

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