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Abstract
Interactions among female paper wasps of newly founded colonies suggest that dominance relations assign social (reproductive) roles to siblings in a way advantageous to both dominants and subordinates. In various social animals dominance relations may have been an important prerequisite for the evolution of a division of labor between reproductive and nonreproductive (or less reproductive) adults.Mesh:
Year: 1967 PMID: 6038176 DOI: 10.1126/science.157.3796.1584
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728