Daughters inherit colonies from mothers in the 'living-fossil' ant Nothomyrmecia macrops

2002/01/17 by Matthias Sanetra, Ross H. Crozier · 16 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Animal Behavior and Reproduction #Biology #Demography #Ecology #Hymenoptera #Inclusive fitness #Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior #Kin selection #Nest (protein structural motif) #Plant and animal studies #Polygyny #Population #Queen (butterfly) #Sociology #Zoology

paper · doi:10.1007/s00114-001-0288-5

published in Naturwissenschaften 89(2), 71-74 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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Citations

• Notes on female and worker survivorship in the archaic ant genus myrmecia
• Social life: the paradox of multiple-queen colonies
• The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I
• Ant reproductive strategies

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• Patterns of population subdivision and gene flow in the ant Nothomyrmecia macrops reflected in microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA markers
• Phylogenetic relationships among species groups of the ant genus Myrmecia
• Nothomyrmecia [wikipedia]