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Caste in a primitive ant: absence of age polyethism in amblyopone.

Abstract

Polyethism, the divison of labor among members of a colony, is based on worker age and size in ants. In the ponerine species Amblyopone pallipes worker behavior is independent of age, therefore temporal castes, or groups of age-related task specialists, do not exist. This primitive caste system, previously unknown in ants, appears to be correlated with the peculiar characteristics of the life history and ecology of Amblyopone.

Entities: Chemical Disease Species

Year: 1978 PMID： 17807252 DOI： 10.1126/science.202.4369.770

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728

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Caste in a primitive ant: absence of age polyethism in amblyopone.

1. Colony size affects division of labour in the ponerine ant Rhytidoponera metallica.

2. Age, worksite location, neuromodulators, and task performance in the ant Pheidole dentata.

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4. Taxonomic revision of Stigmatomma Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Malagasy region.

5. Social complexity influences brain investment and neural operation costs in ants.

6. Temporal polyethism, life expectancy, and entropy of workers of the ant Ectatomma vizottoi Almeida, 1987 (Formicidae: Ectatomminae).

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