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Reproductive constraints, direct fitness and indirect fitness benefits explain helping behaviour in the primitively eusocial wasp, Polistes canadensis

A key step in the evolution of sociality is the abandonment of independent breeding in favour of helping. In cooperatively breeding vertebrates and primitively eusocial insects, helpers are capable of leaving the group and reproducing independently, and yet many do not. A fundamental question theref...

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Main Authors: Sumner, Seirian, Kelstrup, Hans, Fanelli, Daniele
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2010
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871861/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20129991
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2009.2289
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