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Is the postpharyngeal gland of a solitary digger wasp homologous to ants? Evidence from chemistry and physiology
The postpharyngeal gland (PPG) was thought to be restricted to ants where it serves a crucial function in the generation of the colony odour. Recently, head glands that closely resemble the PPG of ants were discovered in females of a solitary digger wasp, the European beewolf. The function of this g...
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SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
2010
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2886088/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20651903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00040-010-0083-4 |