Hormonal pleiotropy helps maintain queen signal honesty in a highly eusocial wasp

Abstract In insect societies, both queens and workers produce chemicals that reliably signal caste membership and reproductive status. The mechanisms that help to maintain the honesty of such queen and fertility signals, however, remain poorly studied. Here we test if queen signal honesty could be b...

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Autores principales: Ricardo Caliari Oliveira, Ayrton Vollet-Neto, Cintia Akemi Oi, Jelle S. van Zweden, Fabio Nascimento, Colin Sullivan Brent, Tom Wenseleers
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/d4e2f437adf147af9549e2c92ecc9440
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