Born in an Alien Nest: How Do Social Parasite Male Offspring Escape from Host Aggression?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Lhomme, Patrick ^a   Ayasse, Manfred ^b   Valterová, Irena ^c   Lecocq, Thomas ^a   Rasmont, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSAY; BUMBLEBEE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HOST; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT CASTE; INSECT SOCIETY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; ODOR; ORGANISM COLONY; PARASITISM; PROGENY; SOCIAL PARASITISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; WORKER (INSECT);

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MALE; PARASITES; PHEROMONES;

HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; PSITHYRUS;

EID: 84866648926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0043053     Document Type: Article

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