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Clonal reproduction by males and females in the little fire ant.

Nature - 30 Jun 2005

Fournier Denis, Estoup Arnaud, Orivel Jérôme, Foucaud Julien, Jourdan Hervé, Le Breton Julien, Keller Laurent

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Sexual reproduction can lead to major conflicts between sexes and within genomes. Here we report an extreme case of such conflicts in the little fire ant Wasmannia auropunctata. We found that sterile workers are produced by normal sexual reproduction, whereas daughter queens are invariably clonally produced. Because males usually develop from unfertilized maternal eggs in ants and other haplodiploid species, they...

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PMID: 15988525
DOI: 10.1038/nature03705

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