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Reversible plasticity in brain size, behaviour and physiology characterizes caste transitions in a socially flexible ant (
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- The effects of artificial light at night on spider brains.Biology letters · 2024Article
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- Olfactory Critical Periods: How Odor Exposure Shapes the Developing Brain in Mice and Flies.Biology · 2024Review
- Caste Transition and Reversion inBio-protocol · 2023Article
- Insulin signaling in the long-lived reproductive caste of ants.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Reduced neural investment in post-reproductive females of the bee Ceratina calcarta.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Social isolation and group size are associated with divergent gene expression in the brain of ant queens.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Article
- Less can be more: Fine tuning the maternal brain.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2022Review
- Experience-expectant brain plasticity corresponds to caste-specific abiotic challenges in dampwood termites (Zootermopsis angusticollis and Z. nevadensis).Die Naturwissenschaften · 2021Article
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Abstract
Phenotypic plasticity allows organisms to respond to changing environments throughout their lifetime, but these changes are rarely reversible. Exceptions occur in relatively long-lived vertebrate species that exhibit seasonal plasticity in brain size, although similar changes have not been identified in short-lived species, such as insects. Here, we investigate brain plasticity in reproductive workers of the ant
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