Body Size of Wood Ant Workers Affects their Work Division

The division of functions among ant workers and their mutual cooperation is one of the reasons for ants’ success. The activities that workers perform in the nest can be divided by age or morphology. We studied the body size of workers of the wood ant Formica polyctena as a function of their activit...

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Main Authors: Adam Véle, Roman Modlinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana 2019-12-01
Series:Sociobiology
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Online Access:http://periodicos.uefs.br/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/4596