A socially enforced signal of quality in a paper wasp

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7014, 2004, Pages 218-222

  Tibbetts, Elizabeth A ^a,b   Dale, James ^c  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COSTS; FACE RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

DOMINANCE; FACIAL PATTERNS; PAPER WASPS; SUBSETS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BODY SIZE; SIGNALING; SOCIAL STATUS; WASP;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FACE; FEMALE; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WASP;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY SIZE; COLOR; CUES; FACE; FEMALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHENOTYPE; PIGMENTATION; PUNISHMENT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; WASPS;

ANIMALIA; POLISTES; POLISTES DOMINULUS; POLISTES FUSCATUS PALLIPES; POLISTINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 9144259657     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02949     Document Type: Article

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