Natural selection drives the evolution of ant life cycles

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

Volumn 111, Issue 35, 2014, Pages 12585-12590

  Wilson, Edward O ^a   Nowak, Martin A ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Claustrality; Inadequacy of inclusive fitness; Sociobiology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ALLELE; ANT; CRETACEOUS; EUSOCIALITY; EVOLUTION; FITNESS; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HISTORY; INSECT SOCIETY; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE HISTORY; MONOGAMY; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX ALLOCATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; CLAUSTRALITY; INADEQUACY OF INCLUSIVE FITNESS; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; MALE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

EID: 84907227976     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1405550111     Document Type: Review

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