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Quantitative differences in nourishment affect caste-related physiology and development in the paper wasp Polistes metricus.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Judd Timothy M, Teal Peter E A, Hernandez Edgar Javier, Choudhury Talbia, Hunt James H
Abstract excerpt
The distinction between worker and reproductive castes of social insects is receiving increased attention from a developmental rather than adaptive perspective. In the wasp genus Polistes, colonies are founded by one or more females, and the female offspring that emerge in that colony are either non-reproducing workers or future reproductives of the following generation (gynes). A growing number of studies now...
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