Evolution of a soldier caste specialized to lay unfertilized eggs in the ant genus Crematogaster (subgenus Orthocrema)

Arthropod Structure and Development

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 257-264

  Peeters, Christian ^a   Lin, Chung Chi ^b   Quinet, Yves ^c   Martins Segundo, Glauco ^c   Billen, Johan ^d  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^b NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Flight sclerites; Mosaic; Repletes; Soldier caste; Spermatheca; Workers

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; CREMATOGASTER; CREMATOGASTER BIROI; CREMATOGASTER PYGMAEA; CREMATOGASTER SCHIMMERI; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORTHOCREMA; PHENOTYPE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLDIER (INSECT); SPERMATHECA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAZIL; FEMALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; OVARY; OVUM; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TAIWAN;

CREMATOGASTER BIROI; CREMATOGASTER PYGMAEA; CREMATOGASTER SCHIMMERI; CREMATOGASTER SMITHI; HYMENOPTERA; ORTHOCREMA;

EID: 84877040137     PISSN: 14678039     EISSN: 18735495     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asd.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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