Heinze, Jürgen and Keller, Laurent (2000) Alternative reproductive strategies: a queen perspective in ants. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 15 (12). pp. 508-512. ISSN 0169-5347
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Ant colonies are commonly thought to have a stable and simple family structure, with one or a few egg-laying queens and their worker daughters. However, recent genetic studies reveal that the identity of breeding queens can vary over time within colonies. In several species, some queens are apparently specialized to enter established colonies instead of initiating a new colony on their own. The previously overlooked occurrence of queen turnover within colonies has important consequences not only on the genetic structure and nature of kin conflict within colonies, but also on the evolution of social parasitism.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | CASTE DETERMINATION; MITOCHONDRIAL-DNA; INTRASPECIFIC PARASITISM; SYMPATRIC SPECIATION; SOCIAL HYMENOPTERA; SOLENOPSIS-INVICTA; UNRELATED QUEENS; KIN SELECTION; FORMICIDAE; POLYMORPHISM; |
| Subjects: | 500 Science > 570 Life sciences 500 Science > 590 Zoological sciences |
| Divisions: | Biology, Preclinical Medicine > Institut für Zoologie > Zoologie/Evolutionsbiologie (Prof. Dr. Jürgen Heinze) |
| Depositing User: | Petra Gürster |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2021 06:57 |
| Last Modified: | 06 May 2021 06:57 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/42038 |
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