Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales

BACKGROUND: The major lineages of eusocial insects, the ants, termites, stingless bees, honeybees and vespid wasps, all have ancient origins (≥ 65 mya) with no reversions to solitary behaviour. This has prompted the notion of a 'point of no return' whereby the evolutionary elaboration and...

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Autores principales: Chenoweth, Luke B, Tierney, Simon M, Smith, Jaclyn A, Cooper, Steven JB, Schwarz, Michael P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2231370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18154646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-246

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2231370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18154646
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-246

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