The First Workers of the Ant Camponotus obscuripes Are a Different Allometric Morph with Relatively Long Antennae to Communicate with Other Larger Colony Members

The first workers produced by an ant queen with a claustral founding mode are much smaller than the workers after the second generation and are thus called “nanitics.” These nanitics shoulder the initial fate of the colony and thus may be different morphometric morph from the other workers in mature...

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Main Authors: Saori Watanabe, Mamoru Terayama, Ryota Kawauchiya, Natsuki Ogusu, Yusuke Fujita, Syunta Mikami, Yuuka Murakami, Eisuke Hasegawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-01-01
Series:Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4520109
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