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SUBMITTER: Gill RJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2817112 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gill Richard J RJ Arce Andres A Keller Laurent L Hammond Robert L RL
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20090930 1677
Identifying species exhibiting variation in social organization is an important step towards explaining the genetic and environmental factors underlying social evolution. In most studied populations of the ant Leptothorax acervorum, reproduction is shared among queens in multiple queen colonies (polygyny). By contrast, reports from other populations, but based on weaker evidence, suggest a single queen may monopolize all reproduction in multiple queen colonies (functional monogyny). Here we iden ...[more]