Egg-laying "intermorphs" in the ant Crematogaster smithi neither affect sexual production nor male parentage.

We study male parentage and between-colony variation in sex allocation and sexual production in the desert ant Crematogaster smithi, which usually has only one singly-mated queen per nest. Colonies of this species are known to temporarily store nutrients in the large fat body of intermorphs, a speci...

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Auteurs principaux: Jan Oettler, Michiel B Dijkstra, Jürgen Heinze
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/be8339b174204b7bb1682632f0f2dae7
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