Geographic Variation of Caste Structure among Ant Populations
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Geographic Variation of Caste Structure among Ant Populations
Morphologically distinct worker castes of eusocial insects specialize in different tasks. The relative proportions of these castes and their body sizes represent the demography of a colony that is predicted to vary adaptively with environments. Despite strong theoretical foundations, there has been little empirical evidence for the evolution of colony demography in nature. We show that geograph...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2004.03.005