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Evolution of Social Insect Polyphenism Facilitated by the Sex Differentiation Cascade
The major transition to eusociality required the evolution of a switch to canalize development into either a reproductive or a helper, the nature of which is currently unknown. Following predictions from the ‘theory of facilitated variation’, we identify sex differentiation pathways as promising can...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4816456/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27031240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005952 |