Raiders from the sky: Slavemaker founding queens select for aggressive host colonies

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 748-750

  Pamminger, Tobias ^a   Modlmeier, Andreas P ^a   Suette, Stefan ^b   Pennings, Pleuni S ^c   Foitzik, Susanne ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Dispersal; Fitness; Parasite; Personality

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANT; ARMS RACE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DISPERSAL; FITNESS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NEST STRUCTURE; QUEEN; RECIPROCITY;

FORMICIDAE; TEMNOTHORAX LONGISPINOSUS;

EID: 84866708200     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0499     Document Type: Article

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