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SUBMITTER: Brady SG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC164488 | biostudies-literature | 2003 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20030515 11
The army ant syndrome of behavioral and reproductive traits (obligate collective foraging, nomadism, and highly specialized queens) has allowed these organisms to become the premiere social hunters of the tropics, yet we know little about how or why these strategies evolved. The currently accepted view holds that army ants evolved multiple times on separate continents. I generated data from three nuclear genes, a mitochondrial gene, and morphology to test this hypothesis. Results strongly indica ...[more]