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- URN to cite this document:
- urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-450972
- DOI to cite this document:
- 10.5283/epub.45097
Abstract
Workers in many species of social insects are capable of laying unfertilized eggs, which can develop into haploid males. This causes a conflict about male parentage between queens and workers. In a few species, this may result in matricide, that is, workers kill the colony's queen. Queen killing has so far been observed mainly in multi-queen colonies or in annual species, when the queen's ...
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