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A diapause pathway underlies the gyne phenotype in Polistes wasps, revealing an evolutionary route to caste-containing insect societies.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 28 Aug 2007
Hunt James H, Kensinger Bart J, Kossuth Jessica A, Henshaw Michael T, Norberg Kari, Wolschin Florian, Amdam Gro V
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Colonies of social wasps, ants, and bees are characterized by the production of two phenotypes of female offspring, workers that remain at their natal nest and nonworkers that are potential colony reproductives of the next generation. The phenotype difference includes morphology and is fixed duri...
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