Do Japanese Queenless Ants Pristomyrmex punctatus (F. Smith) Exhibit Genotype-based Kin Recognition During Colony Formation?

Journal of Insect Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 137-142

  Nishide, Yudai ^a   Satoh, Toshiyuki ^a   Murase, Kaori ^b   Thomas, Cathleen E ^c   Iwabuchi, Kikuo ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Kin recognition; Pristomyrmex punctatus; social behavior; thelytokous parthenogenesis

Indexed keywords

FORMICIDAE; PRISTOMYRMEX PUNCTATUS;

EID: 84856217772     PISSN: 08927553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10905-011-9286-4     Document Type: Article

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