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Population and colony structure of the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 1996
Gadau J, Heinze J, Hölldobler B, Schmid M
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The colony and population structure of the carpenter ant, Camponotus floridanus, were investigated by multilocus DNA fingerprinting using simple repeat motifs as probes [e.g. (GATA)4]. The mating frequency of 15 queens was determined by comparing the fingerprint patterns of the queen and 17-33 of her progeny workers. C. floridanus queens are most probably singly mated, i.e. this species is monandrous and...
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