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Social Structure and Genetic Distance Mediate Nestmate Recognition and Aggressiveness in the Facultative Polygynous Ant Pheidole pallidula

In social insects, the evolutionary stability of cooperation depends on the privileged relationships between individuals of the social group, which is facilitated by the recognition of relatives. Nestmate recognition is based on genetically determined cues and/or environmentally derived chemical com...

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Autores principales: Fournier, Denis, de Biseau, Jean-Christophe, De Laet, Sophie, Lenoir, Alain, Passera, Luc, Aron, Serge
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/PMC4886963/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27243627
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0156440