How stealth organs make super soldier ants (Ep 91)
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The Superorganisms Regulation of the Soldier Cast
The regulation of this whole phenomenon is a socially mediated process, right? It's either through nutrition and the juvenile hormone that you just mentioned or what I thought was even more compelling Phenomenal influences. When we dissected over the larvae that disc is gone Okay, so it affected and when you look at the metamorphosed individuals those soldier-destined individuals Their heads and body sizes are completely perturbed. We're thinking like oh my goodness like how could it be? If we actually replicated those social demography ratio changes in the lab and see does it affect that rudimentary wing disc in developing soldiers Something that we now know is that developmental mechanism that influences what cast you become.
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