Does an ecological advantage produce the asymmetric lineage ratio in a harvester ant population?

Oecologia

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 849-857

  Gordon, Deborah M ^a   Pilko, Anna ^a   De Bortoli, Nicolas ^b   Ingram, Krista K ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^c Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

Pogonomyrmex; Sex ratio; Skewed lineage ratio

Indexed keywords

ANT; CENSUS; COLONY STRUCTURE; DATA SET; GENETIC ANALYSIS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUEEN; SEX RATIO; SURVIVORSHIP;

POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS;

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; MICROSATELLITE DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX RATIO;

EID: 84885908660     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-013-2690-z     Document Type: Article

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