Article,

Caste and division of labor in leaf-cutter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Atta)

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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 7 (2): 157--165 (July 1980)
DOI: 10.1007/BF00299521

Abstract

Leaf cutting was selected for an evaluation of ergonomic efficiency in the fungus-growing ant Atta sexdens because it is performed largely by medias (head width 1.8--2.8 mm), which attend to relatively few other functions and hence are less likely to be evolutionarily compromised by the demands of competing tasks (Fig. 1).

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