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

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Task definition and experimental design. a Worker tasks were divided into three categories. b Foragers and nurses of a single colony were separated into two sub-colonies: the forager-biased colony and nurse-biased colony. After 7 days, workers from the nurse-biased colony were reintroduced into the forager-biased colony to form the reintroduced colony (treatment 1: precocious foragers were introduced; treatment 2: stable nurses and precocious foragers were introduced). c Interpretation of worker task choice in the reintroduced colony based on threshold models

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Frontiers in Zoology

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