Founders versus joiners: Group formation in the paper wasp Polistes dominulus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 699-705

  Zanette, Lorenzo R S ^a   Field, Jeremy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kinship; Movement pattern; Nestmate choice; Polistes dominulus; Reproductive strategy; Social wasp

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; HIBERNATION; KINSHIP; MORPHOLOGY; NESTING; NESTMATE RECOGNITION; PREDATION RISK; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SOCIAL INSECT; SOCIAL NETWORK; WASP;

SPAIN;

POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 80052766373     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.06.025     Document Type: Article

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