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Cryptic lineages hybridize for worker production in the harvester ant Messor barbarus.

Biology letters - 1 Nov 2016

Norman Victoria, Darras Hugo, Tranter Christopher, Aron Serge, Hughes William O H

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The reproductive division of labour between queen and worker castes in social insects is a defining characteristic of eusociality and a classic example of phenotypic plasticity. Whether social insect larvae develop into queens or workers has long been thought to be determined by environmental cues, i.e. larvae are developmentally totipotent. Contrary to this paradigm, several recent studies have revealed that...

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PMID: 27852941
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0542
PMCID: PMC5134035

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