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Table 1 Life history traits associated with different time points assayed during the colony cycle

From: At the brink of eusociality: transcriptomic correlates of worker behaviour in a small carpenter bee

Time point assayed (Figure 1)

Description

Foraging

Reproductively active

 

Larval mass provisions

Trophallaxis

 

1

Spring mothers

Yes

No

Yes

2

Summer mothers

Yes

No

Yes

3

Autumn mothers

No

Yes

No - post

4

Autumn dwarf eldest daughters

No

Yes

No - never

5

Autumn regular daughters

No

No

No - pre

  1. Females were classified as displaying foraging behaviour if they performed either larval mass provisioning or trophallaxis. Autumn mothers are in a post-reproduction state, regular daughters are in a pre-reproductive state, and dwarf eldest daughters never reproduce; thus, these females are considered reproductively inactive. For each time point 20 adults females were cryopreserved and brains dissected for RNAseq analyses.