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Colony size is linked to paternity frequency and paternity skew in yellowjacket wasps and hornets.
BMC evolutionary biology - 30 Dec 2014
Loope Kevin J, Chien Chun, Juhl Michael
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BACKGROUND: The puzzle of the selective benefits of multiple mating and multiple paternity in social insects has been a major focus of research in evolutionary biology. We examine paternity in a clade of social insects, the vespine wasps (the yellowjackets and hornets), which contains species with high multiple paternity as well as species with single paternity. This group is particularly useful for comparative...
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