A thorough study indicating that the neuropeptide tachykinin may regulate how much behavioral specialists specialize… It’s a new angle on the old and long-standing problem of division of labor. Just a reminder that so much more is to be learned, for example the colony-level consequences remain to be tested!<\/p>\n
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