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Colony life history and lifetime reproductive success of red harvester ant colonies.
The Journal of animal ecology - 1 May 2013
Ingram Krista K, Pilko Anna, Heer Jeffrey, Gordon Deborah M
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1. We estimate colony reproductive success, in numbers of offspring colonies arising from a colony's daughter queens, of colonies of the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus. 2. A measure of lifetime reproductive success is essential to understand the relation of ecological factors, phenotype and fitness in a natural population. This was possible for the first time in a natural population of ant colonies...
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