Colony kin structure and breeding patterns in the social wasp, polistes biglumis

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 345-355

  Seppa P ^a,b   Fogelqvist, J ^a   Gyllenstrand, N ^a,d   Lorenzi, M C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dna microsatellites; Joining and usurpation; Polistes; Polyandry protandry

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BIOMONITORING; COLONY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT TYPE; POLYANDRY; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SEX RATIO; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WASP;

POLISTES; POLISTES BIGLUMIS;

EID: 79959805794     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-011-0149-y     Document Type: Article

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