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Effect of Carbohydrate Supplementation on Investment into Offspring Number, Size, and Condition in a Social Insect
Resource availability can determine an organism’s investment strategies for growth and reproduction. When nutrients are limited, there are potential tradeoffs between investing into offspring number versus individual offspring size. In social insects, colony investment in offspring size and number m...
Autores principales: | Wills, Bill D., Chong, Cody D., Wilder, Shawn M., Eubanks, Micky D., Holway, David A., Suarez, Andrew V. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2015
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4511185/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26196147 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132440 |
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