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SUBMITTER: Hasegawa E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5830712 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hasegawa Eisuke E Watanabe Saori S Murakami Yuuka Y Ito Fuminori F
Royal Society open science 20180214 2
Phenotypic variations are observed in most organisms, but their significance is not always known. The phenotypic variations observed in social insects are exceptions. Genetically based response threshold variances have been identified among workers and are thought to play several important adaptive roles in social life, e.g. allocating tasks among workers according to demand, promoting the sustainability of the colony and forming the basis of rationality in collective decision-making. Several pa ...[more]