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Variable virulence among isolates of Ascosphaera apis: testing the parasite-pathogen hypothesis for the evolution of polyandry in social insects.

Die Naturwissenschaften - 1 Mar 2013

Lee G M, McGee P A, Oldroyd B P

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The queens of many eusocial insect species are polyandrous. The evolution of polyandry from ancestral monoandry is intriguing because polyandry undermines the kin-selected benefits of high intracolonial relatedness that are understood to have been central to the evolution of eusociality. An accumulating body of evidence suggests that polyandry evolved from monoandry in part because genetically diverse colonies...

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PMID: 23340580
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-013-1016-7

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