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Social Context and Reproductive Potential Affect Worker Reproductive Decisions in a Eusocial Insect

Context-dependent decision-making conditions individual plasticity and is an integrant part of alternative reproductive strategies. In eusocial Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps), the discovery of worker reproductive parasitism recently challenged the view of workers as a homogeneous collective enti...

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Autores principales: Yagound, Boris, Blacher, Pierre, Chameron, Stéphane, Châline, Nicolas
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/PMC3522577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23251701
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052217