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| Title |
Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scales
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, December 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-7-246 |
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| Authors |
Luke B Chenoweth, Simon M Tierney, Jaclyn A Smith, Steven JB Cooper, Michael P Schwarz |
| Abstract |
The major lineages of eusocial insects, the ants, termites, stingless bees, honeybees and vespid wasps, all have ancient origins (> or = 65 mya) with no reversions to solitary behaviour. This has prompted the notion of a 'point of no return' whereby the evolutionary elaboration and integration of behavioural, genetic and morphological traits over a very long period of time leads to a situation where reversion to solitary living is no longer an evolutionary option. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 76 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| South Africa | 2 | 3% |
| United States | 2 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Poland | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 69 | 91% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 20 | 26% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 11% |
| Professor | 5 | 7% |
| Other | 15 | 20% |
| Unknown | 7 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 53 | 70% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 4 | 5% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown | 8 | 11% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 March 2012.
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#8,534,976
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#1,997
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#43,950
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#18
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