Body size of wood ant workers affects their work division
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00020702%3A_____%2F19%3AN0000039" target="_blank" >RIV/00020702:_____/19:N0000039 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/19:81158
Result on the web
<a href="http://periodicos.uefs.br/ojs/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/4596/4126" target="_blank" >http://periodicos.uefs.br/ojs/index.php/sociobiology/article/view/4596/4126</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v66i4.4596" target="_blank" >10.13102/sociobiology.v66i4.4596</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Body size of wood ant workers affects their work division
Original language description
The division of functions among ant workers and their mutual cooperation is one of the reasons for ants' success. The activities that workers perform in the nest can be divided by age or morphology. We studied the body size of workers of the wood ant Formica polyctena as a function of their activity. Our results show that workers exploiting protein baits were larger than workers attracted to carbohydrate baits. The biggest of all were workers located at the upper parts of the nest, which shows the importance of nest defense and maintenance. It also points that the distribution of functions does not have to be given only by workers age. Work division based on several mechanisms may be advantageous for colony functioning.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF15_003%2F0000433" target="_blank" >EF15_003/0000433: Building up an excellent scientific team and its spatio-technical background focused on mitigation of the impact of climatic changes to forests from the level of a gene to the level of a landscape at the FFWS CULS Prague</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sociobiology
ISSN
0361-6525
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
66
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
BR - BRAZIL
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
614-618
UT code for WoS article
000505150200014
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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