Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:13:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2011-12-01; In several species of social insects, there is a positive relationship between the food exchange that occurs during trophallaxis and the ovarian development of workers, indicating that food transfers are important for the establishment of reproductive hierarchies between the colony members. In this chap...