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Task allocation in a cooperative society: specialized castes or age-dependent switching among ant workers

Some ant species have multiple worker castes that differ in body size; workers in one caste remain in the colony and those in the other forage outside the colony (caste polyethism). In other species, all workers engage in both tasks, but the younger workers remain in the colony and the older workers...

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Autores principales: Iwasa, Yoh, Yamaguchi, Sachi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7039887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32094370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-59920-5