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European Journal of TaxonomyAlthough the ant genus Temnothorax is broadly distributed, extremely diverse, and contains multitudes of undescribed species, discovering new Temnothorax species in the eastern United States is rare due to the high concentration of taxonomic effort on ...
Matthew M. Prebus +3 more
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eLife, 2014 The concerted evolution of morphological and behavioral specializations has compelling examples in ant castes. Unique to ants is a marked divergence between winged queens and wingless workers, but morphological specializations for behaviors on the ground
Roberto A Keller +2 more
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Minimizing moving distance in deposition behavior of the subterranean termite
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Subterranean termite nests are located underground and termites forage out by constructing tunnels to reach food resources, and tunneling behavior is critical in order to maximize the foraging efficiency.
Sang‐Bin Lee +3 more
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Starvation resistance and tissue-specific gene expression of stress-related genes in a naturally inbred ant population [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Starvation is one of the most common and severe stressors in nature. Not only does it lead to death if not alleviated, it also forces the starved individual to allocate resources only to the most essential processes.
Nick Bos +3 more
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Hornets Have It: A Conserved Olfactory Subsystem for Social Recognition in Hymenoptera?
Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2017 Eusocial Hymenoptera colonies are characterized by the presence of altruistic individuals, which rear their siblings instead of their own offspring. In the course of evolution, such sterile castes are thought to have emerged through the process of kin ...
Antoine Couto +4 more
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Termite Taxonomy, Challenges and Prospects: West Africa, A Case Example
Insects, 2019 Termites are important ecosystem engineers. Yet they are often difficult to identify due to the lack of reliable species-specific morphological traits for many species, which hampers ecological research. Recently, termitologists working with West African
Judith Korb +13 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Termites are “social cockroaches” and amongst the most phenotypically plastic insects. The different castes (i.e., two types of reproductives, workers, and soldiers) within termite societies are all encoded by a single genome and present the result of ...
Judith Korb +3 more
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Lower Termite Associations with Microbes: Synergy, Protection, and Interplay
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2016 Lower-termites are one of the best studied symbiotic systems in insects. Their ability to feed on a nitrogen-poor, wood-based diet with help from symbiotic microbes has been under investigation for almost a century.
Brittany Faye Peterson, Michael E Scharf
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First record of antipredator behavior in the gall‐forming aphid Mordwilkoja vagabunda
Ecosphere, 2022 The gall‐forming aphid Mordwilkoja vagabunda has been an out‐group in molecular studies of the evolution of social behavior in the Pemphigus genus, but Mordwilkoja aphids have not previously been assayed for social behavior, such as altruistic defense ...
Andrew Wesley Legan
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
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