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Worker division of labor and endocrine physiology are associated in the harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex californicus

In Pogonomyrmex californicus harvester ants, an age-associated division of labor occurs in the worker caste, in which young workers perform in-nest tasks and older workers forage for food. Here, we tested whether this behavioral division is age based or age flexible, and whether it coincides with di...

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Hauptverfasser: Dolezal, Adam G., Brent, Colin S., Hölldobler, Bert, Amdam, Gro V.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Company of Biologists 2012
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257171/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22246254
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.060822
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