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The emergence and scaling of division of labor in insect societies

@inproceedings{Holbrook2011TheEA,
  title={The emergence and scaling of division of labor in insect societies},
  author={Carter Tate Holbrook},
  year={2011}
}
Division of labor is a pervasive feature of animal societies, but little is known about the causes or consequences of division of labor in non-eusocial cooperative groups. We tested whether division of labor self-organizes in an incipient social system: artificially induced nesting associations of the normally solitary sweat bee Lasioglossum (Ctenonomia) NDA-1 (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). We quantified task performance and construction output by females nesting either alone or with a conspecific… 
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