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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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Autores principales: Klein, Antonia, Schultner, Eva, Lowak, Helena, Schrader, Lukas, Heinze, Jürgen, Holman, Luke, Oettler, Jan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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