Loading...

Societies Drifting Apart? Behavioural, Genetic and Chemical Differentiation between Supercolonies in the Yellow Crazy Ant Anoplolepis gracilipes

BACKGROUND: In populations of most social insects, gene flow is maintained through mating between reproductive individuals from different colonies in periodic nuptial flights followed by dispersal of the fertilized foundresses. Some ant species, however, form large polygynous supercolonies, in which...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Drescher, Jochen, Blüthgen, Nico, Schmitt, Thomas, Bühler, Jana, Feldhaar, Heike
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2010
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2962633/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21042578
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0013581
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!