Mario L. Muscedere

The evolutionary neurobiology of age-related division of labour: brain architecture and precocial behaviour in the ancestral ant Stigmatomma pallipes

Age-related behaviour is fundamental to the organization of insect societies, but its neurobiological evolution is not well understood. Contrasting sharply with most species in which workers do not forage immediately after adult eclosion, in the 'social fossil' ant Stigmatomma pa...