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SUBMITTER: Dobata S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2664351 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dobata Shigeto S Sasaki Tomonori T Mori Hideaki H Hasegawa Eisuke E Shimada Masakazu M Tsuji Kazuki K
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20090201 1656
Cooperation is subject to cheating strategies that exploit the benefits of cooperation without paying the fair costs, and it has been a major goal of evolutionary biology to explain the origin and maintenance of cooperation against such cheaters. Here, we report that cheater genotypes indeed coexist in field colonies of a social insect, the parthenogenetic ant Pristomyrmex punctatus. The life history of this species is exceptional, in that there is no reproductive division of labour: all females ...[more]