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Tricks of the trade: Mechanism of brood theft in an ant
Thievery is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, social insects not being an exception. Brood is invaluable for the survival of social insect colonies and brood theft is well documented in ants. In many species the stolen brood act as slaves in the thief colony as they take up tasks related to foraging...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29489858 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192144 |