Erika Vanessa da Costa Carvalho

Neural variation in the worker subcastes of the carpenter ant Camponotus rufipes: brain volume, antennal lobe development, and implications for labor division

Abstract The ant Camponotus rufipes is facultatively polygynous and has polymorphic castes, in which the worker is composed of two subcastes: the major worker and the minor worker. This study evaluated the whole and relative volumes of the antennal lobe, optic lobe, and calyx of...