Geographical Variation in Social Structure, Morphology, and Genetics of the New World Honey Ant Myrmecocystus mendax
abstract: Persistent cooperation between unrelated conspecifics rarely occurs in mature eusocial insect societies. In this dissertation, I present evidence of non-kin cooperation in the Nearctic honey ant Myrmecocystus mendax. Using microsatellite markers, I show that mature colonies in the Sierra A...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.50447 |