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Ployandry versus polygyny versus parasites

1999-02-28

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Although social insect colonies are most easily conceptualized as consisting of a single, once-mated queen and her worker progeny, the number of queens per colony and the number of times queens mate varies broadly in ants and other social insects. Various hypotheses have been suggested for the resulting range of breeding systems and social organizations, respectively; one set of hypotheses relating to both queen n...

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Literature Corpus work: 58c8537d-9e95-58c5-a9fe-6b643349a936
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0401
PMCID: PMC1692514

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