Nest site limitation and facultative polygyny in the ant Leptothorax longispinosus

1986/07/01 by Joan M. Herbers · 146 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Aculeata #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Animal ecology #Biology #Demography #Ecology #Facultative #Hymenoptera #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Nest (protein structural motif) #Plant and animal studies #Polygyny #Population

paper · doi:10.1007/bf00299946

published in Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 19(2), 115-122 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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Citations

• Social organization of nest emigration inLeptothorax (Hym., Form.)
• Colony founding by pleometrosis in the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta
• Monogyny and Polygyny in the Fire Ant, Solenopsis invicta1
• The number of queens: An important trait in ant evolution
• The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I
• Polygyny in termites: Multiple primary queens in colonies ofNasutitermes corniger (Motschuls) (Isoptera: Termitidae)

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