ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2021
The plasticity of lifespan in social insects.
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- Inter-Caste Comparison Reveals a Unique Bioenergetic Signature in Long-Lived Ant Queens.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- The pace and shape of ant ageing.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Is the concept of mammalian epigenetic clocks universal and applicable to invertebrates?Frontiers in genetics · 2025Article
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- Advancing methods for the biodemography of aging within social contexts.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Microbiome assembly and maintenance across the lifespan of bumble bee workers.Molecular ecology · 2023Article
- Social divergence: molecular pathways underlying castes and longevity in a facultatively eusocial small carpenter bee.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Biomarkers in a socially exchanged /fluid reflect colony maturity, behavior, and distributed metabolism.eLife · 2021Article
- Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Life expectancy in ants explains variation in helpfulness regardless of phylogenetic relatedness.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
One of the central questions of ageing research is why lifespans of organisms differ so tremendously among related taxa and, even more surprising, among members of the same species. Social insects provide a particularly pronounced example for this. Here, we review previously published information on lifespan plasticity in social insects and provide new data on worker lifespan in the ant
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