Facial Patterns are a Conventional Signal of Agonistic Ability in Polistes exclamans Paper Wasps

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1138-1146

  Tibbetts, Elizabeth A ^a   Sheehan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BODY SIZE; NESTING; QUEEN; SIGNAL; WASP;

ANIMALIA; POLISTES EXCLAMANS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 80054976928     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01967.x     Document Type: Article

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