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Behaviourally specialized foragers are less efficient and live shorter lives than generalists in wasp colonies

A widely held assumption in ecology is that specialists are more efficient than generalists. However, empirical evidence for this fundamental assumption is surprisingly scarce and often contradictory. Theoretically, the evolution of alternative life history strategies is underpinned by a trade-off b...

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Autores principales: Santoro, Davide, Hartley, Stephen, Lester, Philip J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6441081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30926867
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41791-0