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Task partitioning in insect societies: novel situations

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Ratnieks and Anderson (1999) recently reviewed task partitioning in insect societies. They collated numerous examples of partitioned tasks involving the collection and transportation of colony resources to the nest. However, no non-foraging examples were known. Here we report task partitioning in excavation, emigration, and refuse disposal. We also report an example of task partitioning without strong division of labour.

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  1. Department of Zoology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0325, USA, e-mail: carl@duke.edu. Present address: LS Biologie I, Universität Regensburg, Universitätsstrasse 31, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany , , , , , , US

    C. Anderson

  2. Department of Animal & Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK, e-mail: F.Ratnieks@shef.ac.uk , , , , , , UK

    F.L.W. Ratnieks

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Received 12 October 1999; revised 14 January 2000; accepted 21 January 2000.

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Anderson, C., Ratnieks, F. Task partitioning in insect societies: novel situations. Insectes soc. 47, 198–199 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00001702

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