Evolution: no-male's land for an Amazonian ant.
Recent work has shown that, in the Amazonian fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus smithii, queens use exclusively asexual reproduction and the male sex seems to have disappeared from the species. This finding illustrates the remarkable diversity of reproductive systems in ants.
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Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles (CP 160/12), Av. F.D. Roosevelt, 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. Denis.Fournier@ulb.ac.be
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D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D012100:Reproduction, Asexual; D013045:Species Specificity