Policing Relative Conflicts of Interest in Social Insects
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Specialization in policing behaviour among workers in the ant Pachycondyla inversa.
Most animal societies are non-clonal and thus subject to conflicts. In social insects, conflict over male production can be resolved by worker policing, i.e. eating of worker-laid eggs (WLE) or aggression towards reproductive workers. All workers in a colony have an interest in policing behaviour being expressed, but there can be asymmetries among workers in performing the actual behaviour. Her...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- PLoS Biology
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2004