Trematodes with a reproductive division of labour: heterophyids also have a soldier caste and early infections reveal how colonies become structured.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2016.10.003
Abstract: Recent findings have extended the documentation of complex sociality to the Platyhelminthes, describing the existence of a reproductive division of labour involving a soldier caste among the parthenitae of trematode parasites. However, all species examined… read more here.
Keywords: soldier caste; reproductive division; division labour;