Fig. 1A teneral adult male Bolitotherus cornutus (image credit: Stan Malcolm and Mark Smith of macroscopic solutions).

#LiteratureNotice Benowitz et al. A chromosome-level genome assembly of the forked fungus beetle #Bolitotherus cornutus, a model system for studying social evolution in the wild doi.org/10.1093/jher... #Beetle #Beetles #forkedfungusbeetle #evolutionarybiology

How about this tiny unit, a forked fungus beetle. He and his ladies live out their whole life cycles on #ganoderma species of #fungi. Apparently the bigger the horn the sweeter the ju-uice

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