- URN to cite this document:
- urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-537995
- DOI to cite this document:
- 10.5283/epub.53799
Abstract
Social insect queens and workers can engage in conflict over reproductive allocation when they have different fitness optima. Here, we show that queens have control over queen-worker caste allocation in the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior, a species in which workers lack reproductive organs. We describe crystalline deposits that distinguish castes from the egg stage onwards, providing the first ...
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