Individual experience influences reconstruction of division of labour under colony disturbance in a queenless ant species

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    Using the ratio of nursing activity in the original colonies and worker tasks, the authors also examined the effect on the task choice of nurses in the nurse-biased colonies (Fig 1b). Effect of task experience on task choice To evaluate the effect of experience on task choice, the authors examined the task choice of reverted nurses (original foragers that switched to nurse-task) in the reintroduced colonies. In case of precocious foragers (forager-task experienced nurses) and stable nurses (non-experienced nurses), there was no significant statistical difference in the proportion of workers . . .

     

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