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Old soldiers never die ....
Centre for Social Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Genome Biology 2012, 13:144 doi:10.1186/gb-2012-13-2-144
Published: 22 February 2012Abstract
An ancestral supersoldier phenotype of Pheidole ants can be recovered when selection for supersoldiers re-emerges, indicating that the developmental potential for caste pathways is retained.
