[HTML][HTML] Metabolic division of labor in social insects

MA Negroni, AC LeBoeuf - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Homosynergetic metabolic division of labor is widespread but understudied in
social insects.•Metabolic division of labor requires the transfer of processed metabolites …

Ecological change and conflict reduction led to the evolution of a transformative social behavior in ants

MP Meurville, D Silvestro, AC LeBoeuf - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Behavioral innovations can be ecologically transformative for lineages that perform them
and for their associated communities. Many ecologically dominant, superorganismal, and …