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Conditional use of sex and parthenogenesis for worker and queen production in ants.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 3 Dec 2004
Pearcy Morgan, Aron Serge, Doums Claudie, Keller Laurent
Abstract excerpt
The near-ubiquity of sexual reproduction in animal species has long been considered a paradox because sexually reproducing individuals transmit only half of their genome to their progeny. Here, we show that the ant Cataglyphis cursor circumvents this cost by using alternative modes of reproduction for the production of reproductive and nonreproductive offspring. New queens are almost exclusively produced by...
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