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Quantifying social group evolution [PDF]
Nature, 2007 11 pages, 4 ...
Palla, Gergely +2 more
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DNMT1 mutant ants develop normally but have disrupted oogenesis
Nature Communications, 2023 Although DNA methylation is an important gene regulatory mechanism in mammals, its function in arthropods remains poorly understood. Studies in eusocial insects have argued for its role in caste development by regulating gene expression and splicing ...
Iryna Ivasyk +6 more
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Evolution of Social Networks [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
Hellmann, Tim, Staudigl, Mathias
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BMC Biology, 2018 Background Division of labor between reproductive queens and workers that perform brood care is a hallmark of insect societies. However, studies of the molecular basis of this fundamental dichotomy are limited by the fact that the caste of an individual ...
Romain Libbrecht +2 more
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anTraX, a software package for high-throughput video tracking of color-tagged insects
eLife, 2020 Recent years have seen a surge in methods to track and analyze animal behavior. Nevertheless, tracking individuals in closely interacting, group-living organisms remains a challenge.
Asaf Gal +2 more
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Ecology and Society, 2006 The interdisciplinary framework known as resilience theory used by ecologists, social scientists, as well as policy makers, is primarily concerned with the sources of transformation and stability in complex socioecological systems.
Matthew A. Peeples +2 more
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Social Norms and the Evolution of Conditional Cooperation [PDF]
, 2007 This paper develops a model of social norms and cooperation in large societies. Within this framework we use an indirect evolutionary approach to study the endogenous formation of preferences and the coevolution of norm compliance.
Spichtig, Mathias, Traxler, Christian
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Reconstructing the functions of endosymbiotic Mollicutes in fungus-growing ants
eLife, 2018 Mollicutes, a widespread class of bacteria associated with animals and plants, were recently identified as abundant abdominal endosymbionts in healthy workers of attine fungus-farming leaf-cutting ants.
Panagiotis Sapountzis +4 more
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BMC Biology, 2018 Reinvestigation of the raw data revealed an unfortunate error in Ugelvig et al. 2008 [1].
Line V. Ugelvig +5 more
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The evolution of cooperation by social exclusion [PDF]
, 2012 The exclusion of freeriders from common privileges or public acceptance is widely found in the real world. Current models on the evolution of cooperation with incentives mostly assume peer sanctioning, whereby a punisher imposes penalties on freeriders ...
Sasaki, Tatsuya, Uchida, Satoshi
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