eusocial insect

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eusocial
adjective
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/juːˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us
/juːˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
living in colonies (= groups) with one animal or group producing young and the others working to care ...
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insect
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.sekt/us
/ˈɪn.sekt/
a type of very small animal with six legs, a body divided into three parts and usually two pairs of wings, or, more generally, any similar very ...
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Eusocial insects are animals that develop large, multigenerational cooperative societies that assist each other in the rearing of young, often at the cost of an individuals life or reproductive ability.
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Such altruism is explained in that eusocial insects benefit from giving up reproductive ability of many individuals to improve the overall fitness of closely related offspring.
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Efforts in genome sequencing have allowed researchers to examineeusocialinsectbehavior from a molecular perspective.
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Worker policing has been suggested as a form of coercion to promote the evolution of altruistic behavior ineusocialinsectsocieties.
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Eusocialinsectsocieties have all the characteristics of a semisocial one, except overlapping generations of adults cohabit and share in the care of young.
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In the eusocial insects, for example, it is possible to identify not only learning but also memory.
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While these insects are technically classified as eusocial insects they are commonly referred to simply as the social insects.
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The large colony size of eusocial insects elicits both costs and benefits.
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His research group specialises in the behavioural and evolutionary ecology of social systems, using eusocial insects as models.
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High relatedness of individuals within a given colony as well as haplodiploidy have been cited as heavy contributing factors to the success of eusocial insects.
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In other eusocial insects as well, worker size can determine what polymorphic role they become.
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Other eusocial insects, such as soldier termites, have developed guard polymorphs that specialize in nest defense.
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Eusocial insects are animals that develop large, multigenerational cooperative societies that assist each other in the rearing of young, often at the cost of an individuals life or reproductive ability.
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Unlike the complex, free-form structures of the eusocial insects, the ultimate shape that the nests of caterpillars take is determined to no small extent by exogenous factors.
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Gall thrips, however, actually exhibit not only high relatedness between sisters, but also between brother-sister, a departure from the results typical of other haplodiploid eusocial insects.
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Such altruism is explained in that eusocial insects benefit from giving up reproductive ability of many individuals to improve the overall fitness of closely related offspring.
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Eusocial insects develop large, multigenerational cooperative societies that assist each other in the rearing of young, often at the cost of an individuals life or reproductive ability.
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