Assured fitness returns in a social wasp with no worker caste

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1720, 2011, Pages 2991-2995

  Lucas, Eric R ^a   Field, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assured fitness returns; Cooperative brood care; Insurance based advantages; Microstigmus; Origin of sociality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BROOD REARING; EUSOCIALITY; FITNESS; NESTING; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; PARENTAL INVESTMENT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SOCIAL INSECT; SURVIVORSHIP; WASP; WORKER CASTE;

APOIDEA; MICROSTIGMUS; MICROSTIGMUS NIGROPHTHALMUS;

EID: 80052240450     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0128     Document Type: Article

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