Abstract
In social insects, the limited amount of resources during the claustral founding predicts a trade-off between the number and size of the first-generation of workers. Here, we demonstrate this predicted trade-off in founding colonies of the ant Camponotus japonicus. Worker size was found to correlate negatively with the number of first workers produced when the amount of investment was controlled. Both size and number of the first generation of workers increased when a queen invested more resources. We also examined how a queen adjusts the size and number of the first workers depending on her condition.
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