A morphologically specialized soldier caste improves colony defense in a neotropical eusocial bee

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1182-1186

  Grüter, Christoph ^a   Menezes, Cristiano ^b,c   Imperatriz Fonseca, Vera L ^b,d   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA AMAZÔNIA ORIENTAL   (Brazil)

^d Universidade Federal Rural do Semiarido   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Caste evolution; Meliponini

Indexed keywords

WAX;

ANT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; FORAGER; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEAD; INSECT CASTE; ISOPTERA; LEG; NATURAL ENEMY; NEOTROPICS; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER; STINGLESS BEE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WORKER;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; BEES; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAZIL; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; LINEAR MODELS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; OBSERVATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; LESTRIMELITTA LIMAO; MELIPONINAE; TETRAGONISCA ANGUSTULA;

EID: 84856391628     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1113398109     Document Type: Article

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