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Parasites modulate within-colony activity and accelerate the temporal polyethism schedule of a social insect, the honey bee

Task allocation in social insect colonies is generally organised into an age-related division of labour, termed the temporal polyethism schedule, which may in part have evolved to reduce infection of the colony’s brood by pests and pathogens. The temporal polyethism schedule is sensitive to colony p...

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Autores principales: Natsopoulou, Myrsini E., McMahon, Dino P., Paxton, Robert J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4917585/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27397965
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-015-2019-5