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Food storage and morphological divergence between worker and soldier castes in a subterranean myrmicine ant, Carebara perpusilla

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Khalife, Adam, Peeters, Christian (2021): Food storage and morphological divergence between worker and soldier castes in a subterranean myrmicine ant, Carebara perpusilla. Journal of Natural History 54 (47-48): 3131-3148, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1890851, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2021.1890851

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