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Two alternate mechanisms contribute to the persistence of interdependent lineages in Pogonomyrmex harvester ants.
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2007
Schwander Tanja, Keller Laurent, Cahan Sara Helms
Abstract excerpt
Some populations of Pogonomyrmex harvester ants comprise pairs of highly differentiated lineages with queens mating at random with several males of their own and of the alternate lineage. These queens produce two types of diploid offspring, those fertilized by males of the queens' lineage which develop into new queens and those fertilized by males of the other lineage which mostly develop into functionally...
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