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Social Task Regulation in the Dimorphic Ant, Pheidole pallidula: the Influence of Caste Ratio

We investigated whether the physical castes of the dimorphic ant Pheidole pallidula (Nylander) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), are involved in determining within-nest activities and how their social investment in everyday tasks is influenced by large changes in the colony's caste ratio. Although the...

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Autores principales: Sempo, Grégory, Detrain, Claire
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Library 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014662/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20569124
http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.010.0301