The role of climatic factors in the expression of an intrasexual signal in the paper wasp polistes dominulus

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 766-774

  Green, Jonathan P ^a   Rose, Charles ^a   Field, Jeremy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; ORNAMENTATION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PUPA; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNALING; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; WASP;

ANIMALIA; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTINAE;

EID: 84863737593     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02067.x     Document Type: Article

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