Ant nurse workers exhibit behavioral and transcriptomic signatures of specialization on larval stage
Justin T. Walsh, Michael R. Warner, Adrian Kase, Benjamin J. Cushing, Timothy A. Linksvayer
The paper shows that ant nurse workers specialize in caring for larvae of specific stages, with molecular evidence of gene expression differences related to larval age.
bioRxiv · Mar 23, 2018 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology