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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |