Nest Inheritance Is the Missing Source of Direct Fitness in a Primitively Eusocial Insect

Author:

Leadbeater Ellouise1,Carruthers Jonathan M.12,Green Jonathan P.1,Rosser Neil S.3,Field Jeremy1

Affiliation:

1. School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK.

2. Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Biomolecular Analysis Facility, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK.

3. Department of Genetics, Evolution, and Environment, University College London, London NW1 2HE, UK.

Abstract

Fitness benefits from the inheritance of breeding resources may explain why Polistes wasps cooperate with nonrelatives.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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