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Phenotypically plastic traits regulate caste formation and soldier function in polyembryonic wasps.

Journal of evolutionary biology - 1 Dec 2010

Smith M S, Milton I, Strand M R

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Polyembryonic encyrtid wasps are parasitoids that have evolved a clonal form of embryogenesis and a caste system where some progeny become reproducing wasps whereas others develop into a sterile soldier caste. Theory based on the biology of Copidosoma floridanum predicts that the primary role of...

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PMID: 21040070
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02127.x
PMCID: PMC3057481

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