Group demography affects ant colony performance and individual speed of queen and worker aging
Abstract Background The performance and fitness of social societies mainly depends on the efficiency of interactions between reproductive individuals and helpers. Helpers need to react to the group’s requirements and to adjust their tasks accordingly, while the reproductive individual has to adjust...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-08-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-1026-8 |