Sentences with phrase «with eusociality»

But Jamie Hunt, a zoologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, says the work has «serious shortcomings,» showing only that monogamy correlates with eusociality without necessarily causing it.

«Tradeoffs between weaponry and fecundity in snapping shrimp queens vary with eusociality: Weakly eusocial queens must trade off their investment in maintaining their fighting claws or producing eggs.»

A similar story held true for ants, whose evolutionary history with eusociality was also thought to be long, but only weakly supported by the fossil record.

Not exact matches

When Hughes's group examined the distribution of monogamous versus polygamous species among the eight branches of the family tree in which eusociality had independently evolved, the researchers concluded that each branch had started with a monogamous species.

Within Hymenoptera, considerable interest has focused on the role that eusociality plays in shaping the evolution of the immune system [7], [8], [36], [38], [73], with at least some suggestion that social species may have a reduced complement of immune - related genes.

The evolution of eusociality has been associated with a 100-fold increase in insect lifespan.