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Insect policing carries costs
Email: Nick Atkinson - nwa@entangled.org News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040825-03
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Findings published this week in PLoS Biology claim that worker policing in social insects has a more complex evolutionary basis than even their unusual patterns of genetic relatedness allow. Instead, it is the 'colony efficiency'—the cost that reproducing workers impose on the colony as a whole—that determines how many are tolerated, according to the study.
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