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Karyotype instability in the ponerine ant genus Diacamma.
Journal of genetics - 1 Aug 2010
Karnik Nutan, Channaveerappa H, Ranganath H A, Gadagkar Raghavendra
Abstract excerpt
The queenless ponerine ant Diacamma ceylonense and a population of Diacamma from the Nilgiri hills which we refer to as 'nilgiri', exhibit interesting similarities as well as dissimilarities. Molecular phylogenetic study of these morphologically almost similar taxa has shown that D. ceylonense is closely related to 'nilgiri' and indicates that 'nilgiri' is a recent diversion in the Diacamma phylogenetic tree....
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