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Resistance to nutritional stress in ants: when being fat is advantageous

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Fig. 1. Experimental design for experiment 3. In a first step, 8 mothercolonies were established in the lab and fed ad libitum for 30 days
Fig. 2. Ant lifespan on different treatments according to worker caste. The response of F1 foragers and I1 inner-nest workers to (A) a high-carbohydratediet (P:C, 1:5; P+C, 200 g lEight daughter colonies of 200 F1 foragers and 8 daughter colonies of 200 I1
Fig. 4. Proportion of ants in the foraging arena thatfeed and their individual intake according to diet.200 g l(A) Number of ants observed feeding divided by colonysize and (B) diet intake per ant (colony intake divided bycolony size) when F1 foragers and
Fig. 6. Effect of the individual carbohydrate intakeon proportion of lipid as a function of new andI2) for F1 forager andformer worker caste
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