The loss of flight in ant workers enabled an evolutionary redesign of the thorax for ground labour

BACKGROUND: Explanations for the ecological dominance of ants generally focus on the benefits of division of labour and cooperation during foraging. However, the principal innovation of ants relative to their wasp ancestors was the evolution of a new phenotype: a wingless worker caste optimized for...

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Autores principales: Peeters, Christian, Keller, Roberto A., Khalife, Adam, Fischer, Georg, Katzke, Julian, Blanke, Alexander, Economo, Evan P.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7574298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-020-00375-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7574298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-020-00375-9

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