Reversible plasticity in brain size, behaviour and physiology characterizes caste transitions in a socially flexible ant (Harpegnathos saltator)

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So ends this second and last weekend on the Indian jumping ant society. Nature had millions of years to devise these strange and stable configurations for biological fitness. The insect world is full of similar examples. https://t.co/1eMDiGiRVu

Contestant prep. “Physiological changes begin shortly after tournaments are initiated, and reversibility allows workers to return to forager status without suffering long-term effects associated with the early transition period to reproductive status.” ht…

Fate of the loosers. “However, reversibility of phenotypic plasticity could be maintained to allow workers the return to forager status after they have lost a reproductive tournament.” https://t.co/1eMDiGiRVu

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