Brood care and social evolution in termites

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1738, 2012, Pages 2662-2671

  Korb, Judith ^a   Buschmann, Michael ^a   Schafberg, Saskia ^a   Liebig, Jürgen ^b   Bagnères, Anne Geneviève ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Altruism; Brood care; Cooperatively breeding; Eusociality; Social evolution; Social insects

Indexed keywords

AVES; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; MAMMALIA; TERMITIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CLASSIFICATION; COOPERATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; ISOPTERA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BREEDING; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ISOPTERA; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84987705049     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2639     Document Type: Article

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