Larger colonies do not have more specialized workers in the ant Temnothorax albipennis

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Behavioral Ecology

• Publication date

  2009-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology

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  DOI 10.1093/BEHECO/ARP070
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