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Global-scale analyses of chemical ecology and population genetics in the invasive Argentine ant.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2009
Brandt M, Van Wilgenburg E, Tsutsui N D
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Ants are some of the most abundant and ecologically successful terrestrial organisms, and invasive ants rank among the most damaging invasive species. The Argentine ant is a particularly well-studied invader, in part because of the extreme social structure of introduced populations, known as unicoloniality. Unicolonial ants form geographically vast supercolonies, within which territorial behaviour and...
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