Evaluation of possible proximate mechanisms underlying the kinship theory of intragenomic conflict in social insects

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1206-1214

  Galbraith, David A ^a   Yi, Soojin V ^b   Grozinger, Christina M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; GENOME IMPRINTING; INSECT; INSECT GENOME; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EPIGENOMICS; GENOME, INSECT; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; INSECTA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85021172274     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: 15577023     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/icw111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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