Public goods dilemma in asexual ant societies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 40, 2013, Pages 16056-16060

  Dobata, Shigeto ^a,b   Tsuji, Kazuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Phenotypic plasticity; Public goods game; Self organization; Social e olution; Social parasitism

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOLOGY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; COOPERATION; GENOTYPE; INSECT SOCIETY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REARING; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; WORKER;

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PUBLIC GOODS GAME; SELF-ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL PARASITISM;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GENETIC FITNESS; JAPAN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84885063458     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1309010110     Document Type: Article

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