serval:BIB_C2EC0B27728B
Evolution: social selection for eccentricity.
10.1016/j.cub.2004.11.023
000225810900011
15589135
Chapuisat
M.
author
article
letter
2004
Current Biology
0960-9822[print], 0960-9822[linking]
journal
14
23
R1003-R1004
The dress code of paper wasps, like that of humans, is related to their social habits: species with a flexible nest-founding strategy have highly variable black-and-yellow markings. This color polymorphism facilitates individual recognition and might have been selected to permit complex social interactions.
Animals
Evolution
Nesting Behavior/physiology
Pattern Recognition, Physiological/physiology
Phylogeny
Pigmentation/physiology
Selection, Genetic
Social Behavior
Wasps/physiology
eng
60_published
true
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