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Parasitoidism, not sociality, is associated with the evolution of elaborate mushroom bodies in the brains of hymenopteran insects

The social brain hypothesis posits that the cognitive demands of social behaviour have driven evolutionary expansions in brain size in some vertebrate lineages. In insects, higher brain centres called mushroom bodies are enlarged and morphologically elaborate (having doubled, invaginated and subcomp...

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Main Authors: Farris, Sarah M., Schulmeister, Susanne
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2011
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3049053/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21068044
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2161
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