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Egg-Laying “Intermorphs” in the Ant Crematogaster smithi neither Affect Sexual Production nor Male Parentage

We study male parentage and between-colony variation in sex allocation and sexual production in the desert ant Crematogaster smithi, which usually has only one singly-mated queen per nest. Colonies of this species are known to temporarily store nutrients in the large fat body of intermorphs, a speci...

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Autores principales: Oettler, Jan, Dijkstra, Michiel B., Heinze, Jürgen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3794939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24130699
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075278