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Queen-worker conflicts over male production and sex allocation in a primitively eusocial wasp.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2003
Tsuchida Koji, Saigo Takaharu, Nagata Norio, Tsujita Sumiko, Takeuchi Kazuki, Miyano Shinya
Abstract excerpt
In a colony headed by a single monandrous foundress, theories predict that conflicts between a queen and her workers over both sex ratio and male production should be intense. If production of males by workers is a function of colony size, this should affect sex ratios, but few studies have examined how queens and workers resolve both conflicts simultaneously. We conducted field and laboratory studies to test...
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