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Identifying the transition between single and multiple mating of queens in fungus-growing ants.

Obligate mating of females (queens) with multiple males has evolved only rarely in social Hymenoptera (ants, social bees, social wasps) and for reasons that are fundamentally different from those underlying multiple mating in other animals. The monophyletic tribe of ('attine') fungus-growi...

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Main Authors: Villesen, Palle, Murakami, Takahiro, Schultz, Ted R, Boomsma, Jacobus J
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2002
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691065/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12184823
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2002.2044
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