Colony Founding Behavior of Some Desert Ants: Geographic Variation in Metrosis
The ants Pogonomyrmex catifornicus and Pheidole tucsonica display cooperative colony foundation with co-foundresses forming associations without respect to relatedness. Geographic variation in method of colony foundation [cooperative (pleometrosis) versus non-cooperative (haplometrosis)] occurs in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
2000-01-01
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| Series: | Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2000/20135 |