Altruistic Colony Defense by Menopausal Female Insects

Recent studies have suggested that an extended postreproductive life span, such as life after menopause in human females, will evolve when the indirect (kin-selected) fitness benefits from altruistic behavior are greater than the direct fitness benefits from continuing reproduction [1–4]. Under some...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Current biology 2010-07, Vol.20 (13), p.1182-1186
Hauptverfasser:	Uematsu, Keigo, Kutsukake, Mayako, Fukatsu, Takema, Shimada, Masakazu, Shibao, Harunobu
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Altruism Animals Aphididae Aphids - physiology Behavior, Animal EVO_ECOL Female
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