Context-Dependent Behavior, Reproduction and Brain Structure in Newly-Established Colonies of the Primitively Eusocial Wasp, Mischocyttarus mexicanus
Reproductive division of labor is the most distinctive characteristic of the social Hymenoptera; some individuals reproduce and others forego their own reproduction to raise non-descendant offspring. In species where females are reproductively totipotent and lack morphologically distinct castes, the...
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2011
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