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Candidate genes for cooperation and aggression in the social wasp Polistes dominula.
Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology - 1 May 2018
Manfredini Fabio, Brown Mark J F, Toth Amy L
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Cooperation and aggression are ubiquitous in social groups, and the genetic mechanisms underlying these behaviours are of great interest for understanding how social group formation is regulated and how it evolves. In this study, we used a candidate gene approach to investigate the patterns of expression of key genes for cooperation and aggression in the brain of a primitively eusocial wasp, Polistes dominula,...
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