Monogamous sperm storage and permanent worker sterility in a long-lived ambrosia beetle
The lifetime monogamy hypothesis claims that the evolution of permanently unmated worker castes always requires maximal full-sibling relatedness to be established first. The long-lived diploid ambrosia beetle Austroplatypus incompertus (Schedl) is known to be highly social, but whether it has lifeti...
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Springer Nature
2018
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