Worker ants promote outbreeding by transporting young queens to alien nests
Vidal et al. identify a breeding system in the ant Cardiocondyla elegans that avoids colonial inbreeding, managed by a third party of worker ants. This system bears similarities to human matchmaking, but with fundamental genetic drivers rather than social ones.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Communications Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02016-1 |