Adaptive phenotypic variation among clonal ant workers
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Adaptive phenotypic variation among clonal ant workers
Phenotypic variations are observed in most organisms, but their significance is not always known. The phenotypic variations observed in social insects are exceptions. Genetically based response threshold variances have been identified among workers and are thought to play several important adaptive roles in social life, e.g. allocating tasks among workers according to demand, promoting the sust...
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عنوان ژورنال: Royal Society Open Science
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2054-5703
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170816