At the brink of supercoloniality: genetic, behavioral and chemical assessments of population structure of the desert ant Cataglyphis niger
The nesting habits of ants play an important role in structuring ant populations. They vary from monodomy, a colony occupies a single nest, via polydomy, a colony occupies multiple adjacent nests, to supercoloniality, a colony spans over large territories comprising dozen to thousands nests without...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2014-05-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution |
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Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fevo.2014.00013/full |