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Insulin signaling in the long-lived reproductive caste of ants

In most organisms, reproduction is correlated with shorter life span. However, the reproductive queen in eusocial insects exhibits a much longer life span than that of workers. In Harpegnathos ants, when the queen dies, workers can undergo an adult caste switch to reproductive pseudo-queens (gamerga...

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Autores principales: Yan, Hua, Opachaloemphan, Comzit, Carmona-Aldana, Francisco, Mancini, Giacomo, Mlejnek, Jakub, Descostes, Nicolas, Sieriebriennikov, Bogdan, Leibholz, Alexandra, Zhou, Xiaofan, Ding, Long, Traficante, Maria, Desplan, Claude, Reinberg, Danny
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9526546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36048960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abm8767