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Ant Colonies Do Not Trade-Off Reproduction against Maintenance

The question on how individuals allocate resources into maintenance and reproduction is one of the central questions in life history theory. Yet, resource allocation into maintenance on the organismic level can only be measured indirectly. This is different in a social insect colony, a “superorganis...

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Autores principales: Kramer, Boris H., Schrempf, Alexandra, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Heinze, Jürgen
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/PMC4575186/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26383861
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0137969