Fine-Scale Population Structure but Limited Genetic Differentiation in a Cooperatively Breeding Paper Wasp.

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Relatively little is known about the processes shaping population structure in cooperatively breeding insect species, despite the long-hypothesized importance of population structure in shaping patterns of cooperative breeding. Polistes paper wasps are primitively eusocial insects, with a cooperative breeding system in which females often found nests in cooperative associations. Prior mark-recapture studies of...

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