Social insects: rearing temperature affects ant thermoregulatory behaviour.
Differing task thresholds among workers are crucial to the efficient allocation of work in self-organized insect colonies. New evidence suggests that the rearing temperature of ant pupae causes lifelong changes in an ant's response threshold to temperature.
Oldroyd
Benjamin P
BP
University of Sydney, NSW, Australia. b.oldroyd@usyd.edu.au
D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000502:physiology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D001833:Body Temperature Regulation