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The Effect of Group Size on the Interplay between Dominance and Reproduction in Bombus terrestris
Social insects provide good model systems for testing trade-offs in decision-making because of their marked reproductive skew and the dilemma workers face when to reproduce. Attaining reproductive skew requires energy investment in aggression or fertility signaling, creating a trade-off between repr...
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Public Library of Science
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065479/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21464893 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018238 |