Exploring the regulatory role of behaviour and genome architecture in the socially polymorphic ant, Leptothorax acervorum

Eusocial species show incredible variation in all aspects of social living, which has facilitated their ecological success. Investigating the mechanisms which regulate variation in social traits is an important goal for evolutionary biology, since understanding fundamental mechanisms underpinning va...

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Main Author: Braim, Benjamin Simon
Other Authors: Hammond, Robert ; Kyriacou, Charalambos
Published: University of Leicester 2015
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.677416