Endocrine physiology of the division of labour in Pogonomyrmex californicus founding queens

Agriculture & Biology

• Pogonomyrmex californicus 100%
• polyethism 70%
• queen insects 56%
• physiology 42%
• juvenile hormones 25%
• nests 18%
• foraging 17%
• ecdysteroids 17%
• Formicidae 13%
• phenotype 9%
• social insects 8%
• Apis mellifera 7%
• social behavior 7%
• honey bees 7%
• bees 6%
• ancestry 6%
• hormones 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• labor division 75%
• physiology 52%
• hormone 31%
• ant 26%
• nest 24%
• behavioural change 18%
• phenotype 16%
• colony founding 16%
• social insect 12%
• honeybee 11%
• reproductive cycle 10%
• social behavior 9%
• bee 9%
• ancestry 8%