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Intra-colony venom diversity contributes to maintaining eusociality in a cooperatively breeding ant

BACKGROUND: Eusociality is widely considered to evolve through kin selection, where the reproductive success of an individual’s close relative is favored at the expense of its own. High genetic relatedness is thus considered a prerequisite for eusociality. While ants are textbook examples of eusocia...

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Autores principales: Robinson, Samuel D., Schendel, Vanessa, Schroeder, Christina I., Moen, Sarah, Mueller, Alexander, Walker, Andrew A., McKinnon, Naomi, Neely, G. Gregory, Vetter, Irina, King, Glenn F., Undheim, Eivind A. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9827630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36617555
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01507-9