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Worker Allometry in Relation to Colony Size and Social form in the Fire Ant Solenopsis invicta

Workers of the polymorphic fire ant Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) show modest changes of shape with increases in body size. These shape changes (allometries) have been described only for workers taken from mature colonies of the monogyne social form. For the study reported here,...

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Autores principales: Araujo, Matheus B., Tschinkel, Walter R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of Wisconsin Library 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3383423/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20673118
http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.010.9401