Patterns of paternity skew among polyandrous social insects: What can they tell us about the potential for sexual selection?

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3778-3788

  Jaffé, Rodolfo ^a   Garcia Gonzalez, Francisco ^a   den Boer, Susanne P A ^a,b   Simmons, Leigh W ^a   Baer, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cryptic female choice; Genetic diversity; Kin selection; Sexual conflict; Social Hymenoptera; Sperm competition

Indexed keywords

COPULATION; FITNESS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; KIN SELECTION; MATING BEHAVIOR; MONOGAMY; PATERNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; POLYANDRY; QUEEN; RELATEDNESS; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL INSECT; SPERM COMPETITION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; HYMENOPTERA; MALE; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYMENOPTERA; MALE; PHYLOGENY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 84870509427     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01721.x     Document Type: Article

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