Assisted dispersal and reproductive success in an ant species with matchmaking

Abstract Workers of the ant Cardiocondyla elegans drop female sexuals into the nest entrance of other colonies to promote outbreeding with unrelated, wingless males. Corroborating the results from previous years, we document that carrier and carried female sexuals are typically related and that the...

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Main Authors: Mathilde Vidal, Jürgen Heinze
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-08-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9236