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Evolution of thorax architecture in ant castes highlights trade-off between flight and ground behaviors

The concerted evolution of morphological and behavioral specializations has compelling examples in ant castes. Unique to ants is a marked divergence between winged queens and wingless workers, but morphological specializations for behaviors on the ground have been overlooked. We analyzed thorax morp...

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Autores principales: Keller, Roberto A, Peeters, Christian, Beldade, Patrícia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3881093/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24399458
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.01539