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Extreme queen-mating frequency and colony fission in African army ants.

Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2004

Kronauer Daniel J C, Schoning Caspar, Pedersen Jes S, Boomsma Jacobus J, Gadau Jurgen

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Army ants have long been suspected to represent an independent origin of multiple queen-mating in the social Hymenoptera. Using microsatellite markers, we show that queens of the African army ant Dorylus (Anomma) molestus have the highest absolute (17.3) and effective (17.5) queen-mating frequencies reported so far for ants. This confirms that obligate multiple queen-mating in social insects is associated with...

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PMID: 15245410
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2004.02262.x

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