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Insect Queens Sterilize Workers With Chemicals
Escrito por Claudia Bringas Reyes
viernes, 17 de enero de 2014
17 de enero de 2014, 17:51
Washington, Jan 17 (Prensa Latina) European scientists
identified the chemicals released by queen ants, bees and wasps to quash the reproduction of their
workers.
Experts suggest that insects may have been using the chemicals to signal fertility for roughly 150 million
years,
These chemical signals, called pheromones, are thought to make workers infertile.
Studying how these pheromones evolved could provide a window onto how social insects developed their
cooperative living system, the journal Science reported.
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