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Quantitative Differences in Nourishment Affect Caste-Related Physiology and Development in the Paper Wasp Polistes metricus

The distinction between worker and reproductive castes of social insects is receiving increased attention from a developmental rather than adaptive perspective. In the wasp genus Polistes, colonies are founded by one or more females, and the female offspring that emerge in that colony are either non...

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Autores principales: Judd, Timothy M., Teal, Peter E. A., Hernandez, Edgar Javier, Choudhury, Talbia, Hunt, James H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4338145/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25706417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0116199