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Digging beneath the surface: incipient nest characteristics across three species of harvester ant that differ in colony founding strategy
Ants exhibit a size-associated colony founding trait that is characterized by the degree to which foundresses rely on internal reserves to raise their first brood of workers (claustrality). The reliance on stored reserves is positively correlated with degree of claustrality (claustral > facultati...
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SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803755/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20098502 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-009-0056-7 |