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Group demography affects ant colony performance and individual speed of queen and worker aging
BACKGROUND: The performance and fitness of social societies mainly depends on the efficiency of interactions between reproductive individuals and helpers. Helpers need to react to the group’s requirements and to adjust their tasks accordingly, while the reproductive individual has to adjust its repr...
Autores principales: | Giehr, Julia, Heinze, Jürgen, Schrempf, Alexandra |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5540184/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28764664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1026-8 |
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