Flexible Division of Labor Mediated by S
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Dhruba Naug; Raghavendra Gadagkar
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata shows an age-based division of labor in which workers allocate tasks according to their relative ages (age ranks). This age polyethism seems quite flexible because in colonies devoid of old workers, young individuals can perform the tasks normally pe