A Mechanical Signal Biases Caste Development in a Social Wasp

Understanding the proximate mechanisms of caste development in eusocial taxa can reveal how social species evolved from solitary ancestors [1]. In Polistes wasps, the current paradigm holds that differential amounts of nutrition during the larval stage cause the divergence of worker and gyne (potent...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Current biology 2011-02, Vol.21 (3), p.231-235
Hauptverfasser:	Suryanarayanan, Sainath, Hermanson, John C., Jeanne, Robert L.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	adults anatomy & histology ancestry Animals Antennae Behavior, Animal Body Fat Distribution diapause Female females growth & development Hierarchy, Social Hymenoptera Larva Larva - growth & development larvae nests nutrition phenotype Physical Stimulation physiology Polistes fuscatus social insects Wasps Wasps - anatomy & histology Wasps - growth & development Wasps - physiology
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