Parental social environment alters development of nutritionally independent nymphs in Cryptocercus punctulatus (Dictyoptera: Cryptocercidae)
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, 70(6), 881–887.
author keywords: Social environment; Biparental care; Subsociality; Termites; Eusociality; Wood-feeding cockroach
TL;DR:
It is demonstrated that the parental social environment in Cryptocercus punctulatus modifies offspring development independently of the direct transfer of hindgut fluids and does so for more than 2 years after hatch, contributing to the unique set of circumstances that ultimately resulted in the evolution of termite eusociality.
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