Hormonal pleiotropy helps maintain queen signal honesty in a highly eusocial wasp

In insect societies, both queens and workers produce chemicals that reliably signal caste membership and reproductive status. The mechanisms that help to maintain the honesty of such queen and fertility signals, however, remain poorly studied. Here we test if queen signal honesty could be based on t...

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Autores principales: Oliveira, Ricardo Caliari, Vollet-Neto, Ayrton, Akemi Oi, Cintia, van Zweden, Jelle S., Nascimento, Fabio, Sullivan Brent, Colin, Wenseleers, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5431770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28490760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01794-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5431770/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28490760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01794-1

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