Heritable effects on caste determination and colony-level sex allocation in termites under field conditions

Summary: The ecological success of social insects is attributed to the division of labor, where newly hatched offspring differentiate into either fertile progeny or functionally sterile worker castes. There is growing evidence for the heritable (genetic or epigenetic) effects on caste determination...

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Main Authors: Mamoru Takata, Shuya Nagai, Tatsuya Inagaki, Yusaku Ohkubo, Eisuke Tasaki, Kenji Matsuura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-03-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223002845