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Factors that influence the caste ratio in a bacterial division of labour. 细菌劳动分工中影响种姓比例的因素。

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0267

Luis Alfredo Avitia Domínguez, Zhengzhou Yu, Varun Chopra, Ruth Viveros, Natalia Tschowri, Roeland Merks, Bram van Dijk, Daniel Rozen

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Helping niches may trigger the development of task specialization and division of labour. 帮助利基可能引发任务专业化和劳动分工的发展。

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0273

Barbara Taborsky

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Division of labour in colony defence in a clonal ant. 克隆蚁群体防御中的劳动分工。

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0270

Zimai Li, Qi Wang, Daniel Knebel, Daniel Veit, Yuko Ulrich

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Inefficiencies in the division of labour in human societies. 人类社会劳动分工效率低下。

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0278

Claudia Diehl, Peter Preisendörfer

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Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts. 互惠主义与劳动分工：概念的相互扩展。

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0266

Jennifer H Fewell, Judith L Bronstein

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What relevance has division of labour in a world of precarious work? 在一个工作不稳定的世界里，劳动分工有什么意义？

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0279

Deborah James

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Specialism and generalism in social animals in variable environments. 多变环境中社会性动物的专门性与通用性。

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0264

Koichi Ito, Andrew Higginson

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The evolution of division of labour: preconditions and evolutionary feedback. 劳动分工的演化：前提条件与演化反馈。

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0262

Michael Taborsky

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Workload distribution in wild Damaraland mole-rat groups. 野生大鼠组的负荷分布。

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0276

Shay Rotics, Hanna M Bensch, Yehezkel S Resheff, Tim Clutton-Brock, Markus Zöttl

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Changes of division of labour along the eusociality spectrum in termites, with comparisons to multicellularity. 白蚁社会分工的变化及其与多细胞生物的比较。

IF 5.4 2区生物学

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-20 DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0268

J Korb

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