A single origin of large colony size in allodapine bees suggests a threshold event among 50 million years of evolutionary tinkering

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 207-214

  Dew, R M ^a   Rehan, S M ^b   Tierney, S M ^c   Chenoweth, L B ^a   Schwarz, M P ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Allodapini bees; Eusociality; Morphological castes; Social evolution

Indexed keywords

BEE; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CLADISTICS; COLONY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; EUSOCIALITY; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE; PHYLOGENY; RARE SPECIES; THRESHOLD;

ALLODAPINI; APOIDEA; EXONEURELLA TRIDENTATA; MYA;

EID: 84859755567     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-011-0206-6     Document Type: Article

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