Juvenile hormone titer and advertised quality are associated with timing of early spring activity in Polistes dominulus foundresses

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 473-478

  Tibbetts, E A ^a   Izzo, A ^a   Tinghitella, R M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diapause; Dominance; Juvenile hormone; Quality signal

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; DIAPAUSE; DOMINANCE; HORMONE; JUVENILE; LOW TEMPERATURE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SIGNAL; SPRING (SEASON); WASP;

POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 80052562485     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-011-0166-x     Document Type: Article

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