Sentences with phrase «of eusocial»
Androgen receptor distribution in the social decision - making network of eusocial naked mole - rats.
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Hoping to test Wilson's new theory, Hughes and colleagues constructed a family tree of 267 species of eusocial bees, wasps, and ants.
«Grouping by family can hasten the spread of eusocial alleles, but it is not a causative agent.
In the world of evolutionary research, scientists studying the evolution of eusocial societies have traditionally relied on information gathered from studying terrestrial insects.
«This work helps us understand the evolutionary history of eusocial and communally breeding social systems, which are socially more complex than pair - forming,» he added.
The amber ant fossils froze a number of eusocial behaviors in time.
Not exact matches
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.
«Communal species of shrimps where unrelated individuals live together in a large group have never transitioned into 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.»
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.
Eusocial insects — bees, wasps, ants and termites — are the soap opera stars of the non-human animal kingdom.
The Zambian mole rat is related to the famous naked mole rat, one of only two mammals to live in «eusocial» colonies: like honeybees and termites, a single queen does all the breeding and the others work to maintain the colony.
That challenges Wilson's theory by suggesting that blood ties are indeed what get eusocial groups started, the team concludes in tomorrow's issue of Science.
Another important Hymenopteran insect, the eusocial bee appeared, which was integral to and symbiotic with the appearance of flowering plants.
Eusocial insects exhibit the most striking example of phenotypic plasticity.
It's the Anchorman of Marvel movies, a eusocial experiment in de minimis, a goldilocks «just right» with all of the superheroism, effects and excitement packaged in.
Episode 32 The final episode of OBSIDIAN, featuring the short story Eusocial Networking, by Scott Sigler.
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).