Do Cuticular Hydrocarbons Provide Sufficient Information for Optimal Sex Allocation in the Ant Formica exsecta?

Jelle S. van Zweden; Emma Vitikainen; Patrizia d'Ettorre; Liselotte Sundstrom

doi:10.1007/s10886-011-0038-x

Do Cuticular Hydrocarbons Provide Sufficient Information for Optimal Sex Allocation in the Ant Formica exsecta?

Jelle S. van Zweden, Emma Vitikainen, Patrizia d'Ettorre, Liselotte Sundstrom

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Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Chemical Ecology
Volume	37
Issue number	12
Pages (from-to)	1365-1373
Number of pages	9
ISSN	0098-0331
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10886-011-0038-x
Publication status	Published - 2011
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Fields of Science

Insects
Social evolution
Nepotism
Kin selection
Levels of selection
Genetic variance
Alkanes
Alkenes
NESTMATE RECOGNITION CUES
WITHIN-COLONY NEPOTISM
QUEEN MATING FREQUENCY
RELATEDNESS ASYMMETRY
MICROSATELLITE LOCI
SOCIAL INSECTS
HYMENOPTERA
RATIOS
MARKERS
WORKERS
1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology

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