title: Enforced altruism in insect societies.
abstract: Cooperation among workers and their seeming altruism result from strict policing by nestmates.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Advanced Study, 14193 Berlin, Germany. tom.wenseleers@bio.kuleuven.be
authors.forename: Tom
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wenseleers
authors.forename: Francis L W
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Ratnieks
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000502:physiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010058:Oviposition / Q000502:physiology; D012919:Social Behavior; D014863:Wasps / Q000502:physiology*