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Queen dominance and worker policing control reproduction in a threatened ant
BACKGROUND: Efficient division of reproductive labor is a crucial characteristic of social insects and underlies their ecological and evolutionary success. Despite of the harmonious appearance of insect societies, nestmates may have different interests concerning the partitioning of reproduction amo...
Autores principales: | Trettin, Jürgen, Haubner, Monika, Buschinger, Alfred, Heinze, Jürgen |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3210084/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21961560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-11-21 |
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