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Multi-queen breeding is associated with the origin of inquiline social parasitism in ants

Social parasites exploit the brood care behavior of their hosts to raise their own offspring. Social parasites are common among eusocial Hymenoptera and exhibit a wide range of distinct life history traits in ants, bees, and wasps. In ants, obligate inquiline social parasites are workerless (or near...

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Autores principales: Dahan, Romain A., Rabeling, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9424252/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36038583
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-17595-0