Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees

Apidologie

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 289-305

  Kocher, Sarah D ^a   Paxton, Robert J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

communal; comparative method; eusocial; evolution; genetics; genomics; semisocial

Indexed keywords

BEE; COLONIAL BREEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUSOCIALITY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENOMICS;

EID: 84899584840     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13592-014-0268-3     Document Type: Review

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