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Nature versus nurture in social insect caste differentiation [PDF]
Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2010 Recent evidence for genetic effects on royal and worker caste differentiation from diverse social insect taxa has put an end to the view that these phenotypes stem solely from a developmental switch controlled by environmental factors. Instead, the relative influences of genotypic and environmental effects on caste vary among species, ranging from ...
Tanja, Schwander +4 more
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Plant microRNAs in larval food regulate honeybee caste development.
PLoS Genetics, 2017 The major environmental determinants of honeybee caste development come from larval nutrients: royal jelly stimulates the differentiation of larvae into queens, whereas beebread leads to worker bee fate.
Kegan Zhu +16 more
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Paradigms of Society: A Critique of Theories of Caste Among Indian Muslims [PDF]
, 1985 This is an offprint version of the article published in European Journal of Sociology 26: 131-41, made available by permission of the publisher.
Lindholm, Charles
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Diet and cell size both affect queen-worker differentiation through DNA methylation in honey bees (Apis mellifera, Apidae). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Young larvae of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) are totipotent; they can become either queens (reproductives) or workers (largely sterile helpers). DNA methylation has been shown to play an important role in this differentiation. In this study, we examine
Yuan Yuan Shi +5 more
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Justice and Gender in Ministry: Debating Women\u27s Ordination [PDF]
, 2005 Much has been written on the question of ordaining women in the Roman Catholic Church. Catholic scholars of all stripes have debated issues such as the biblical sources for a theology of ordination; the relationship between sacramental and non ...
Ryan, Maura A.
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Purity and impurity in nondualistic Śaiva Tantrism [PDF]
, 2015 Indian civilisation has been strongly characterised by the work of containment erected by the Brahmanical elite over the almost two thousand years of its grandiose attempt at culturally and so- cially dominating the Indian world as a whole.
Torella, Raffaele
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The Plasticity and Developmental Potential of Termites
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Phenotypic plasticity provides organisms with the potential to adapt to their environment and can drive evolutionary innovations. Developmental plasticity is environmentally induced variation in phenotypes during development that arise from a shared ...
Lewis Revely +3 more
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Insects, 2012 The Formosan subterranean termite (Coptotermes formosanus) is an important worldwide pest, each year causing millions of dollars in structural damage and control costs. Termite colonies are composed of several phenotypically distinct castes.
Alan Lax +4 more
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Dopamine regulates termite soldier differentiation through trophallactic behaviours [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Caste polyphenism in social insects is regulated by social interactions among colony members. Trophallaxis is one of the most frequently observed interactions, but no studies have been conducted identifying the intrinsic factors involved in this ...
Hajime Yaguchi +3 more
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Insects, 2021 In eusocial insects (e.g., ants, bees, and termites), the roles of different castes are assigned to different individuals. These castes possess unique phenotypes that are specialized for specific tasks.
Yudai Masuoka +4 more
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