Assessment between species: Information gathering in usurpation contests between a paper wasp and its social parasite

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1263-1269

  Green, Jonathan P ^a   Field, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Polistes; Resource value; RHP; Social parasite; Status signal

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BODY SIZE; FIGHTING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NATURAL SELECTION; PARASITE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RESOURCE USE; WASP;

ANIMALIA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES SEMENOWI; POLISTINAE;

EID: 79957711163     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.03.015     Document Type: Article

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