Social competition but not subfertility leads to a division of labour in the facultatively social sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
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Social competition but not subfertility leads to a division of labour in the facultatively social sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) Adam R. Smith *, Karen M. Kapheim , Sean O’Donnell , William T. Wcislo a a Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles Animal Behavior Area, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
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