Social Evolution: Early Production of Deadly Males by Competing Queens

Joan E. Strassmann

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.014

Social Evolution: Early Production of Deadly Males by Competing Queens

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Abstract

Males usually have little involvement in the dramas of social insect societies, but a newly identified Cardiocondyla ant species has been found to produce long-lived, murderous males, even before the first workers, in a new form of queen-queen competition.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R1023-R1025
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	16
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2006.11.014
State	Published - Dec 19 2006

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