Worker lipid stores decrease with outside-nest task performance in wasps: Implications for the evolution of age polyethism
- 1 July 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
- Vol. 51 (7) , 749-752
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01941274
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