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Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differentiation in ants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 12 Nov 2024
Li Ruyan, Dai Xueqin, Zheng Jixuan, Larsen Rasmus Stenbak, Qi Yanmei, Zhang Xiafang, Vizueta Joel, Boomsma Jacobus J, Liu Weiwei, Zhang Guojie
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Caste differentiation involves many functional traits that diverge during larval growth and metamorphosis to produce adults irreversibly adapted to reproductive division of labor. Investigating developmental differentiation is important for general biological understanding and has increasingly been explored for social phenotypes that diverge in parallel from similar genotypes. Here, we use Monomorium pharaonis...
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