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Division of Labor Regulates Precision Rescue Behavior in Sand-Dwelling Cataglyphis cursor Ants: To Give Is to Receive

Division of labor, an adaptation in which individuals specialize in performing tasks necessary to the colony, such as nest defense and foraging, is believed key to eusocial insects' remarkable ecological success. Here we report, for the first time, a completely novel specialization in a eusocia...

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Autores principales: Nowbahari, Elise, Hollis, Karen L., Durand, Jean-Luc
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/PMC3492453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23144897
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0048516