Worker ants promote outbreeding by transporting young queens to alien nests
Vidal et al. identify a breeding system in the ant Cardiocondyla elegans that avoids colonial inbreeding, managed by a third party of worker ants. This system bears similarities to human matchmaking, but with fundamental genetic drivers rather than social ones.
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Nature Portfolio
2021
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