Article
Maternity assignment and queen replacement in a social wasp.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Apr 1995
Peters J M, Queller D C, Strassmann J E, Solís C R
Abstract excerpt
Assigning offspring to parents is important for understanding the evolution of reproductive conflicts and cooperation, particularly in the model systems represented by social insects. Molecular genetic markers are often used to exclude, and occasionally used to assign, candidate parents. However,...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Female
- Models, Genetic
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Reproduction
- Wasps