Opportunity To Usurp Reproductive Power Of Royal Throne Keeps Worker Termites Home
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 09:14
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Termite offspring may stay in their birth colony to help their queen and king parents rather than leave to try and start their own family because their chance of inheriting the 'reproductive throne' is higher than their chance of successfully dispersing, finding a mate, and surviving to produce fertile offspring on their own.
