Brood care and social evolution in termites
Brood care and social evolution in termites
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Brood care and social evolution in termites
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England: Royal Society
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Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences, 2012-07, Vol.279 (1738), p.2662-2671
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English
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England: Royal Society
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Cooperative brood care is assumed to be the common driving factor leading to sociality. While this seems to be true for social Hymenoptera and many cooperatively breeding vertebrates, the importance of brood care for the evolution of eusociality in termites is unclear. A first step in elucidating this problem is an assessment of the ancestral condi...
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Brood care and social evolution in termites
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1551613737
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1551613737
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ISSN
0962-8452
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DOI
10.1098/rspb.2011.2639
