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- URN to cite this document:
- urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-446934
- DOI to cite this document:
- 10.5283/epub.44693
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Abstract
Workers of many species of social Hymenoptera have functional ovaries and are capable of laying haploid, unfertilized eggs, at least in the absence of a queen. Except for honeybees, it remains largely unknown whether worker-produced males have the same quality as queen-produced males and whether workers benefit in direct fitness by producing their sons. Previous studies in the monogynous ant ...
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