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Temporal Polyethism and Worker Specialization in the Wasp, Vespula germanica

Temporal polyethism is a common mechanism of worker specialization observed in social insect species with large colony sizes, Vespula wasp colonies consist of thousands of monomorphic workers, yet studies based on small cohorts of workers report that temporal polyethism is either weak or completely...

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Autores principales: Hurd, Christine R., Jeanne, Robert L., Nordheim, Erik V.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Library 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2999442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20345316
http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.007.4301