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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...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |