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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 27.
Published in final edited form as: Science. 2018 Jul 27;361(6400):398–402. doi: 10.1126/science.aar5723

Figure 3: ILP2 supplementation overrides larval suppression of adult reproduction.

Figure 3:

(A) Workers injected with 100 µM ILP2 in the brood care phase activate their ovaries relative to controls injected with 100 µM ILP2 B chain despite being in contact with larvae (n≥10, Welch’s t-test with Bonferroni correction (related data in Fig. S8); p=0.0005). (B and C) Confocal images of ovaries from ants injected with either 100 µM ILP2 (B) or 100 µM ILP2 B chain (C). Shown are the pairs of ovaries closest to the mean value from each treatment; the largest oocyte in each pair is circled in blue.