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Cryptic plasticity underlies a major evolutionary transition.

Current biology : CB - 23 Nov 2010

Field Jeremy, Paxton Robert J, Soro Antonella, Bridge Catherine

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The origin of eusociality is often regarded as a change of macroevolutionary proportions [1, 2]. Its hallmark is a reproductive division of labor between the members of a society: some individuals ("helpers" or "workers") forfeit their own reproduction to rear offspring of others ("queens"). In the Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps), there have been many transitions in both directions between solitary nesting and...

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PMID: 21055940
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.10.020

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