Beekman, Madeleine; Peeters, Christian; O'Riain, M. Justin - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 4, pp. 622-627
identifying common causes underlying reproductive division of labor. Sherman et al. (1995) used reproductive skew values, derived … irreversible morphological differences arise. This allows for heuristic comparisons of reproductive skew across taxa; it is more ….g., physogastry in insect queens and complete sterility of some social insect workers). Importantly, extreme reproductive skew can be …