Worker personality and its association with spatially structured division of labor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pamminger, Tobias ^a   Foitzik, Susanne ^a   Kaufmann, Katharina C ^a   Schützler, Natalie ^a   Menzel, Florian ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON;

AGGRESSION; ALLOMETRY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; FORAGER; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; OVARY; PERSONALITY; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKER (INSECT); ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANTS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84900447237     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079616     Document Type: Article

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