Geographic variation in the status signals of Polistes dominulus paper wasps

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Tibbetts, Elizabeth A ^a   Skaldina, Oksana ^b   Zhao, Vera ^c   Toth, Amy L ^c   Skaldin, Maksim ^d   Beani, Laura ^e   Dale, James ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b National Scientific Center   (Ukraine)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE; COLOR; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FACE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; POLISTES DOMINULUS; QUEEN (INSECT); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WASP; WORKER (INSECT); ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HUNGARY; ITALY; METABOLISM; PAPER; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

MELANIN;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUNGARY; ITALY; MELANINS; PAPER; PIGMENTATION; WASPS;

EID: 83055173273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0028173     Document Type: Article

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