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Fecundity determines the outcome of founding queen associations in ants
Animal cooperation evolved because of its benefits to the cooperators. Pleometrosis in ants—the cooperation of queens to found a colony—benefits colony growth, but also incurs costs for some of the cooperators because only one queen usually survives the association. While several traits in queens in...
Autores principales: | Teggers, Eva-Maria, Deegener, Falk, Libbrecht, Romain |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7862224/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33542354 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82559-9 |
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