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Colony co-founding in ants is an active process by queens

Cooperative breeding may be selected for in animals when, on average, it confers greater benefits than solitary breeding. In a number of eusocial insects (i.e., ants, bees, wasps, and termites), queens join together to co-create new nests, a phenomenon known as colony co-founding. It has been hypoth...

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Autores principales: Aron, Serge, Deneubourg, Jean-Louis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7419493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32782254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70497-x