Egg Policing and Fertility Signaling Across Colony Development in the Ant Camponotus floridanus
abstract: Of all the signals and cues that orchestrate the activities of a social insect colony, the reproductives' fertility pheromones are perhaps the most fundamental. These pheromones regulate reproductive division of labor, a defining characteristic of eusociality. Despite their critical r...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.15944 |