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Non-kin adoption in the common vampire bat [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Individual animals across many different species occasionally ‘adopt’ unrelated, orphaned offspring. Although adoption may be best explained as a by-product of adaptive traits that enhance parental care or promote the development of parental skills, one ...
Imran Razik +3 more
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Caste-Dependent Interspecific Tolerance Permits Alien Reproductives to Reproduce Within Host Colonies in Reticulitermes Termites Under Laboratory Conditions [PDF]
InsectsNestmate recognition is the primary defense mechanism maintaining the integrity of eusocial insect colonies. While social parasitism is widespread in Hymenoptera, it is rarely documented in termites, and the behavioral boundaries preventing interspecific
Zhuang-Dong Bai +3 more
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Reproductive Potential Accelerates Preimaginal Development of Rebel Workers in Apis mellifera [PDF]
Animals, 2021 Rebel workers develop from eggs laid by the previous queen, before it went swarming and left the colony orphaned, until the emergence of a new queen. In contrast to normal workers developing in the queen’s presence, rebels are set to reproduce and avoid ...
Aneta Strachecka +4 more
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Age at which larvae are orphaned determines their development into typical or rebel workers in the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 In the honeybee, diploid larvae fed with royal jelly develop into reproductive queens, whereas larvae fed with royal jelly for three days only and subsequently with honey and pollen develop into facultatively sterile workers.
Karolina Kuszewska, Michal Woyciechowski
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Sociobiology, 2013 In most lower termites, colonies are headed by neotenic reproductives of both sexes after the primary reproductives (i.e., the queen and king) are lost.
Yasushi Miyaguni +2 more
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Neotenic formation in laboratory colonies of the termite Coptotermes gestroi after orphaning [PDF]
Journal of Insect Science, 2004 The termite Coptotermes gestroi (Wasmann 1896) (Rhinotermitidae: Coptotermitinae) is an exotic species in Brazil and information concerning its reproductive developmental biology is scarce. We induced the formation of neotenics in laboratory colonies through orphaning experiments.
Costa-Leonardo, Ana Maria +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2014 Reproductive systems of termite colonies may involve the number of individuals in the reproductive caste and the copulatory selectivity of reproductive individuals (i.e., polyandry or polygamy), both of which directly impact the fertility and genetic ...
Jia Wu +4 more
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Sociobiology, 2015 In nature, Atta cephalotes (L.) is a monogynous species. Each colony has a single, permanent queen fed and protected by thousands of sterile workers. At death the queen colony practically disappears.
Guillermo Sotelo +3 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2005 The effect of removing the functional pair of Kalotermes flavicollis from an experimental colony for 12, 24 or 48 h and the repeated removal for a particular number of hours per day (2, 4, 6, 12, 18, 20, and 22 h) was studied.
Jiří KINDL, Ivan HRDÝ
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Sound Minds in Sound Bodies: Transnational Philanthropy and Patriotic Masculinity in al-Nadi al-Homsi and Syrian Brazil, 1920–32 [PDF]
, 2014 Established in 1920, al-Nadi al-Homsi in Sao Paulo, Brazil was a young men’s club devoted to ˜Syrian patriotic activism and culture in the American mahjar (diaspora). Founded by a transnational network of intellectuals from Homs, the fraternity committed
Stacy Fahrenthold
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