TY  - JOUR
AU  - Judd, T.M.
T1  - A test for variation in slave species work efficiency in mixed slave-maker, Protomognathus americanus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), colonies
JF  - Myrmecological News
Y1  - 2008
DA  - 2008
PB  - The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics
SN  - Print: 1994-4136 - Online: 1997-3500
N1  - 10.25849/myrmecol.news_011:039
DO  - 10.25849/myrmecol.news_011:039
SP  - 39-41
KW  - Protomognathus americanus, Temnothorax, slave-maker, brood parasitism, coevolution, dulosis.
AB  - The possibility that some species of slaves might work more efficiently than others in slave-maker colonies was studiedusing colonies of the slave-maker ant, Protomognathus americanus (Emery, 1895) that contained two slave speciesTemnothorax longispinosus (Roger, 1863) and T. curvispinosus (Mayr, 1866). No difference between the contributionto foraging between the two species was found. This suggests that slaves of the less common slave species are not adjusting their behavior in the presence of another, more common slave-species.
JA  - Myrmecological News
M3  - Original Article
VL  - 11