Can endopolyploidy explain body size variation within and between castes in ants?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2128-2137

  Scholes, Daniel R ^a   Suarez, Andrew V ^a   Paige, Ken N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ants; Body size; Caste; Endoreduplication; Ploidy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886297487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.623     Document Type: Article

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