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Lazy workers are necessary for long-term sustainability in insect societies
Optimality theory predicts the maximization of productivity in social insect colonies, but many inactive workers are found in ant colonies. Indeed, the low short-term productivity of ant colonies is often the consequence of high variation among workers in the threshold to respond to task-related sti...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2016
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4754661/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26880339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep20846 |