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Chapter 6. Comparative genomic approaches to investigate molecular traits specific to social insects.
Current opinion in insect science - 1 Aug 2016
Elsner Daniel, Kremer Lukas Pm, Arning Nicolas, Bornberg-Bauer Erich
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Ageing is a feature of nearly all known organisms and, by its connection to survival, appears to trade off with fecundity. However, in some organisms such as in queens of social insects, this negative relation appears reversed and individuals live long and reproduce much. Since new experimental techniques, transcriptomes and genomes of many social insects have recently become available, a comparison of these data...
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