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An Alpine ant’s behavioural polymorphism: monogyny with and without internest aggression in Tetramorium alpestre

Social structure influences animal societies on various levels (e.g., relatedness, behaviour). In ants, both the number of matings per queen and the number of queens per colony can vary strongly. While workers from both monogynous and polygynous colonies often fight fiercely, in supercolonies (an ex...

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Autores principales: Krapf, Patrick, Russo, Lucia, Arthofer, Wolfgang, Möst, Markus, Steiner, Florian M., Schlick-Steiner, Birgit C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5890305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29682632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03949370.2017.1343868