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Terminal Investment: Individual Reproduction of Ant Queens Increases with Age

The pattern of age-specific fecundity is a key component of the life history of organisms and shapes their ecology and evolution. In numerous animals, including humans, reproductive performance decreases with age. Here, we demonstrate that some social insect queens exhibit the opposite pattern. Egg...

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Autores principales: Heinze, Jürgen, Schrempf, Alexandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3324418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22509399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0035201