A halictid bee with sympatric solitary and eusocial nests offers evidence for Hamilton's rule

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Yagi, Norihiro ^a   Hasegawa, Eisuke ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOPERATION; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HAMILTON RULE; LARVA; LASIOGLOSSUM BALEICUM; LIFE CYCLE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL RATE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 84864850770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1939     Document Type: Article

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