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A Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Sociality in Xylocopine Bees with Only Two Origins of True Worker Castes Indicates Severe Barriers to Eusociality

The origin of sterile worker castes, resulting in eusociality, represents one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life. Understanding how eusociality has evolved is therefore an important issue for understanding life on earth. Here we show that in the large bee subfamily Xylocopi...

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Main Authors: Rehan, Sandra M., Leys, Remko, Schwarz, Michael P.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3325255/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22511959
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0034690
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