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Definition of eusocial in English: eusocialadjective juːˈsəʊʃ(ə)lyo͞oˈsōSHəl Zoology (of an animal species, especially an insect) showing an advanced level of social organization, in which a single female or caste produces the offspring and non-reproductive individuals cooperate in caring for the young. Example sentencesExamples - Under this framework, we present the results of a dynamic programming effort aimed at determining the optimal ontogeny of defensive allocation strategies by eusocial clonal organisms.
- In many eusocial wasps, nests are founded by single females that remain alone until offspring emergence.
- In many taxa, however, including all eusocial vertebrates and many insects, nonbreeding or subordinate group members are potentially capable of reproduction.
- The naked and Damaraland mole-rats are the only known eusocial mammals, behaving like social insects by living in a colony with a single breeding female and related, reproductively suppressed, workers and soldiers.
- In these groups, subordinate reproduction is inhibited, either permanently, in the case of advanced eusocial organisms, or in the presence of dominants.
Derivatives noun Zoology Behavioral studies over the last decade have revealed an unexpected diversity of rather sophisticated social behavior, including even eusociality. Example sentencesExamples - Many researchers expected that this would result in extreme inbreeding and high relatedness within colonies and would thus explain the evolution of eusociality in naked mole-rats.
- Cooperative breeding and eusociality are taxonomically widespread, occurring in social arthropods, colonial invertebrates, mammals, birds, fish, and bacteria.
- Relatedness concepts have dominated the discussion on the evolution and maintenance of eusociality in social insects.
- Darwin correctly anticipated that the key to the paradox of eusociality is the close genetic relatedness between an insect colony's breeders and its sterile workers.
Definition of eusocial in US English: eusocialadjectiveyo͞oˈsōSHəl Zoology (of an animal species, especially an insect) showing an advanced level of social organization, in which a single female or caste produces the offspring and nonreproductive individuals cooperate in caring for the young. Example sentencesExamples - Under this framework, we present the results of a dynamic programming effort aimed at determining the optimal ontogeny of defensive allocation strategies by eusocial clonal organisms.
- In many taxa, however, including all eusocial vertebrates and many insects, nonbreeding or subordinate group members are potentially capable of reproduction.
- In many eusocial wasps, nests are founded by single females that remain alone until offspring emergence.
- In these groups, subordinate reproduction is inhibited, either permanently, in the case of advanced eusocial organisms, or in the presence of dominants.
- The naked and Damaraland mole-rats are the only known eusocial mammals, behaving like social insects by living in a colony with a single breeding female and related, reproductively suppressed, workers and soldiers.
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