Lethal combat over limited resources: Testing the importance of competitors and kin

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 923-931

  Innocent, Tabitha M ^a   West, Stuart A ^a,b   Sanderson, Jennifer L ^a   Hyrkkanen, Nita ^a   Reece, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fatal fighting; kin discrimination; Melittobia; relatedness; resource competition; spite

Indexed keywords

ALTRUISM; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; FIGHTING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; KIN RECOGNITION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MATE CHOICE; PARASITOID; RELATEDNESS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE SCARCITY; WASP;

ANIMALIA; MELITTOBIA;

EID: 80052189550     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arq209     Document Type: Article

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