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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 18.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Entomol. 2019 Dec 2;48(6):1249–1259. doi: 10.1093/ee/nvz117

Figure 3. Microcolony design parameters.

Figure 3.

Microcolony design parameters were extracted from research articles published through November 2018 (Table S1) and plotted to show the relationships between the number of workers, microcolony container volume and experimental duration. Only studies reporting data for all three parameters were included (i.e., 52 of the 75 published articles). When a study included microcolonies composed of different numbers of workers, each configuration was counted individually. If study duration indicated a specific number of days after egg laying, we assigned a value of 6 days for egg initiation.