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Sexual dimorphism as a facilitator of worker caste evolution in ants

Ant societies are primarily composed of females, whereby labor is divided into reproductive, or queen, and non‐reproductive, or worker, castes. Workers and reproductive queens can differ greatly in behavior, longevity, physiology, and morphology, but queen–worker differences are usually modest relat...

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Autor principal: Smith, Chris R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9929627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36818531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9825