Foundress Associations in Polistine Wasps: Dominance Hierarchies and the Evolution of Social Behavior
- 29 September 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 157 (3796) , 1584-1585
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.157.3796.1584
Abstract
Interactions among female paper wasps of newly founded colonies suggest that dominance relations assign social (reproductive) roles to siblings in a way advantageous to both dominants and subordinates. In various social animals dominance relations may have been an important prerequisite for the evolution of a division of labor between reproductive and nonreproductive (or less reproductive) adults.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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