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A heritable component in sex ratio and caste determination in a Cardiocondyla ant

Studies on sex ratios in social insects provide among the most compelling evidence for the importance of kin selection in social evolution. The elegant synthesis of Fisher's sex ratio principle and Hamilton's inclusive fitness theory predicts that colony-level sex ratios vary with the colo...

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Autores principales: Frohschammer, Sabine, Heinze, Jürgen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2774301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19863794
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-6-27