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Reproduction and signals regulating worker policing under identical hormonal control in social wasps

In social Hymenoptera, fertility and fertility signalling are often under identical hormonal control, and it has been suggested that such hormonal pleiotropies can help to maintain signal honesty. In the common wasp Vespula vulgaris, for example, fertile queens have much higher juvenile hormone (JH)...

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Autores principales: Oi, Cintia Akemi, Brown, Robert L., da Silva, Rafael Carvalho, Wenseleers, Tom
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/PMC7643062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33149171
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-76084-4