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Dispersal Polymorphisms in Invasive Fire Ants

In the Found or Fly (FoF) hypothesis ant queens experience reproduction-dispersal tradeoffs such that queens with heavier abdomens are better at founding colonies but are worse flyers. We tested predictions of FoF in two globally invasive fire ants, Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804) and S. invic...

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Autores principales: Helms, Jackson A., Godfrey, Aaron
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4833347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27082115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153955