Patterns of sexual size dimorphism in stingless bees: Testing Rensch’s rule and potential causes in highly eusocial bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Meliponini)

Eusocial insects offer a unique opportunity to analyze the evolution of body size differences between sexes in relation to social environment. The workers, being sterile females, are not subject to selection for reproductive function providing a natural control for parsing the effects of selection o...

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Autores principales: Quezada‐Euán, José Javier G., Sanabria‐Urbán, Salomón, Smith, Corey, Cueva del Castillo, Raúl
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6405504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891209
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4935

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6405504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891209
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4935

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