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