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Cheater genotypes in the parthenogenetic ant Pristomyrmex punctatus.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Feb 2009

Dobata Shigeto, Sasaki Tomonori, Mori Hideaki, Hasegawa Eisuke, Shimada Masakazu, Tsuji Kazuki

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Cooperation is subject to cheating strategies that exploit the benefits of cooperation without paying the fair costs, and it has been a major goal of evolutionary biology to explain the origin and maintenance of cooperation against such cheaters. Here, we report that cheater genotypes indeed coexist in field colonies of a social insect, the parthenogenetic ant Pristomyrmex punctatus. The life history of this...

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PMID: 18854297
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.1215
PMCID: PMC2664351

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