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Beyond promiscuity: mate-choice commitments in social breeding

Obligate eusociality with distinct caste phenotypes has evolved from strictly monogamous sub-social ancestors in ants, some bees, some wasps and some termites. This implies that no lineage reached the most advanced form of social breeding, unless helpers at the nest gained indirect fitness values vi...

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Main Author: Boomsma, Jacobus J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2013
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3576584/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23339241
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2012.0050
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