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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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Autores principales: Cronin, Adam L, Monnin, Thibaud
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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