Reproductive conflicts in social animals: who has power?
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Reproductive conflicts in social animals: who has power?
Theoretical models are often used to analyze reproductive conflicts in animal societies; for example, by determining the different sex-allocation optima of queen and workers. But who is in control (queen or workers, dominant or subordinate) is normally an implicit or explicit assumption of the model. Here, we introduce the concept of power (the ability to do or act in a situation in which confl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0169-5347
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-5347(03)00068-5