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Ontogenic Caste Differences in the Van der Vecht Organ of Primitively Eusocial Neotropical Paper Wasps

Recent studies have reported incipient morphological caste dimorphism in the Van der Vecht organ size of some temperate Polistes paper wasps. Whether species other than the temperate ones show a similar pattern remains elusive. Here, we have studied some Neotropical Polistes species. By comparing fe...

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Autores principales: de Souza, André Rodrigues, Petrocelli, Iacopo, Lino-Neto, José, Santos, Eduardo Fernando, Noll, Fernando Barbosa, Turillazzi, Stefano
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/PMC4864236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27167514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154521