title: Old soldiers never die ....
abstract: An ancestral supersoldier phenotype of Pheidole ants can be recovered when selection for supersoldiers re-emerges, indicating that the developmental potential for caste pathways is retained.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. jjboomsma@bio.ku.dk
authors.forename: Jacobus J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Boomsma
authors.forename: Sanne
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nygaard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005075:Biological Evolution; D007605:Juvenile Hormones / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology; D010641:Phenotype
chemical_list: D007605:Juvenile Hormones