Social evolution: early production of deadly males by competing queens.
Males usually have little involvement in the dramas of social insect societies, but a newly identified Cardiocondyla ant species has been found to produce long-lived, murderous males, even before the first workers, in a new form of queen-queen competition.
Strassmann
Joan E
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Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, MS 170 Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, Texas 77005-1892, USA. strassm@rice.edu
D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000502:physiology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005075:Biological Evolution; D005260:Female; D006608:Hierarchy, Social; D008297:Male; D012744:Sex Ratio; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D012919:Social Behavior