Zusammenfassung
Multiple queen-mating (polyandry) in social insects increases the genetic variability among worker offspring, which may enhance colony survival, social productivity and defence against parasites. The unique and complex symbiosis of leaf-cutting ants with a clonal mutualistic fungus makes this social system particularly vulnerable to contamination by pathogenic and unwanted saprophytic fungi and ...
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