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Do hornets have zombie workers?
Molecular ecology - 1 Jun 2000
Foster K R, Ratnieks F L, Raybould A F
Abstract excerpt
Colonies of the European hornet, Vespa crabro, are typically founded by a single queen mated to a single male. From the resulting colony relatedness pattern we predicted strong worker-queen conflict over male production where both the workers and the queen attempt to produce the colony's males. To test for this conflict, male production was studied in 15 hornet nests using a combination of DNA microsatellite...
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