Maternity assignment and queen replacement in a social wasp.

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Assigning offspring to parents is important for understanding the evolution of reproductive conflicts and cooperation, particularly in the model systems represented by social insects. Molecular genetic markers are often used to exclude, and occasionally used to assign, candidate parents. However, their use in social insects has been unsatisfactory so far because candidate mothers are often highly related and...

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