Female ants display a wide variety of morphological castes, including workers, soldiers,
ergatoid (worker-like) queens and queens. Alternative caste development within a species …

Many insects and arthropods live in colonies or aggregations of varying size. Group size
may affect collective organization either because the same individual behavior has different …

Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

The major goal of ecological evolutionary developmental biology, also known as “eco-evo-
devo,” is to uncover the rules that underlie the interactions between an organism's …

The origin of complex worker-caste systems in ants perplexed Darwin and has remained an
enduring problem for evolutionary and developmental biology,,,–. Ants originated …

Division of labour is central to the ecological success of eusocial insects, yet the
evolutionary factors driving increases in complexity in division of labour are little known. The …

Ants are familiar to every naturalist, ecologist, entomologist, and pest control operator. The
identification of the 233 species of Florida ants is technically difficult, and information on …

Morphological diversification of workers is predicted to improve the division of labor within
social insect colonies, yet many species have monomorphic workers. Individual-level …

Termites (Isoptera) belong to the classical eusocial insects and their resemblance to ant
colonies is so striking that they are commonly known as 'white ants'. However, the termites …

The differentiation of workers into morphological castes represents an important
evolutionary innovation that is thought to improve division of labor in insect societies. Given …