A queen pheromone induces workers to kill sexual larvae in colonies of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta)

Growth and patterning are evolutionarily

Growth and patterning are evolutionarily dissociated in the vestigial wing discs of workers of the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis Invicta

✍ Julia H. Bowsher; Gregory A. Wray; Ehab Abouheif 📂 Article 📅 2007 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 225 KB

## Abstract Over the last decade, it has become clear that organismal form is largely determined by developmental and evolutionary changes in the growth and pattern formation of tissues. Yet, there is little known about how these two integrated processes respond to environmental cues or how they ev