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Context-dependent expression of the foraging gene in field colonies of ants: the interacting roles of age, environment and task

Task allocation among social insect workers is an ideal framework for studying the molecular mechanisms underlying behavioural plasticity because workers of similar genotype adopt different behavioural phenotypes. Elegant laboratory studies have pioneered this effort, but field studies involving the...

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Autores principales: Ingram, Krista K., Gordon, Deborah M., Friedman, Daniel A., Greene, Michael, Kahler, John, Peteru, Swetha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013789/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27581876
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0841

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