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Phenotypic correlation between queen and worker brood care supports the role of maternal care in the evolution of eusociality

Cooperative brood care by siblings, a defining feature of eusociality, is hypothesized to be evolutionarily derived from maternal care via shifts in the timing of the expression of genes underlying maternal care. If sibling and maternal care share a genetic basis, the two behaviors are expected to b...

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Autores principales: Walsh, Justin T., Signorotti, Lisa, Linksvayer, Timothy A., d'Ettorre, Patrizia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6238135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30464814
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4475