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Highly variable social organisation of colonies in the ant Formica cinerea.

Hereditas - 1 Jan 2003

Zhu Danqing, Chapuisat Michel, Pamilo Pekka

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Social organisation of colonies was examined in the ant Formica cinerea by estimating the coefficient of genetic relatedness among worker nest mates. The estimates based on microsatellite genotypes at three loci ranged from values close to zero to 0.61 across the populations studied in Finland. These results showed that a fundamental feature of colonies, the number of reproductive queens, varied greatly among the...

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PMID: 14641467
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-5223.2003.01613.x

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