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Mechanisms of social regulation change across colony development in an ant

BACKGROUND: Mutual policing is an important mechanism for reducing conflict in cooperative groups. In societies of ants, bees, and wasps, mutual policing of worker reproduction can evolve when workers are more closely related to the queen's sons than to the sons of workers or when the costs of...

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Autores principales: Moore, Dani, Liebig, Jürgen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20977775
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-10-328

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