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Competition and Opportunity Shape the Reproductive Tactics of Males in the Ant Cardiocondyla obscurior

Context-dependent adjustment of mating tactics can drastically increase the mating success of behaviourally flexible animals. We used the ant Cardiocondyla obscurior as a model system to study adaptive adjustment of male mating tactics. This species shows a male diphenism of wingless fighter males a...

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Autores principales: Cremer, Sylvia, Schrempf, Alexandra, Heinze, Jürgen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066177/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21468323
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017323