ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
Adaptive phenotypic variation among clonal ant workers.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Within-colony genetic diversity differentially affects foraging, nest maintenance, and aggression in two species of harvester ants.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Adaptive phenotypic variation among clonal ant workers.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
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Abstract
Phenotypic variations are observed in most organisms, but their significance is not always known. The phenotypic variations observed in social insects are exceptions. Genetically based response threshold variances have been identified among workers and are thought to play several important adaptive roles in social life, e.g. allocating tasks among workers according to demand, promoting the sustainability of the colony and forming the basis of rationality in collective decision-making. Several parthenogenetic ants produce clonal workers and new queens by asexual reproduction. It is not clearly known whether such genetically equivalent workers show phenotypic variations. Here, we demonstrate that clonal workers of the parthenogenetic ant
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