Sentences with phrase «eusocial species»
Understanding the ecological and genetic basics of how and why pair - forming species transition to communal and eusocial species will be important to our future work.»
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Our results suggest that communal and eusocial species evolve along their own path.
«Communal species of shrimps where unrelated individuals live together in a large group have never transitioned into eusocial species.»
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Our species has flourished — or come to dominate the other species — not because of the techno - freedom displayed by individuals, but because we are the most «eusocial» of the highly intelligent animals.
Evolutionary biologists had long looked to inclusive fitness to explain «eusocial» species, those that live in highly connected structures inhabited by many generations at once.
In queens of snapping shrimp species that are weakly eusocial, the researchers found strong trade - offs between fighting claw mass and egg number.
To find out, Bornbusch and colleagues determined fighting claw mass and egg number of 353 egg - bearing females from 221 colonies of six eusocial snapping shrimp species in the Caribbean.
In contrast, this trade - off was smaller or absent in queens of species that are strongly eusocial.
Hoping to test Wilson's new theory, Hughes and colleagues constructed a family tree of 267 species of eusocial bees, wasps, and ants.
The naked mole rat is also one of only two mammal species that are «eusocial» — meaning they live in a colony like ants, termites or bees (the other species being the Damaraland mole rat).