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Bourgeois queens and high stakes games in the ant Aphaenogaster senilis
BACKGROUND: Many animals face some form of conflict over reproductive opportunities. Queen selection in social insect colonies represents a high-stakes conflict where competition occurs among multiple queens for a few or a single reproductive role(s). The outcome of the contest is critical to the fi...
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2771002/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19840383 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-6-24 |