Nest inheritance is the missing source of direct fitness in a primitively eusocial insect

Science

Volumn 333, Issue 6044, 2011, Pages 874-876

  Leadbeater, Ellouise ^a,d   Carruthers, Jonathan M ^a,b   Green, Jonathan P ^a   Rosser, Neil S ^c   Field, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREEDING POPULATION; DOMINANCE; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FITNESS; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HERITABILITY; INSECT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIAL INSECT; WASP;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; FITNESS; INHERITANCE; INSECT; NESTING; NONHUMAN; POLISTES DOMINULUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASP;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; POLISTES DOMINULUS;

EID: 80051659403     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1205140     Document Type: Article

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