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Nepotism and brood reliability in the suppression of worker reproduction in the eusocial Hymenoptera

In many eusocial Hymenoptera, workers prevent each other from producing male offspring by destroying worker-laid eggs. Kin selection theory predicts that such ‘worker policing’ behaviour can evolve by increasing the average relatedness between workers and their male brood. Alternatively, if worker-l...

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1. Verfasser: Nonacs, Peter
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: The Royal Society 2006
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1833988/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17148292
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2006.0549
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