ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2023
Queen fecundity, worker entourage and cuticular chemistry in the ant
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- A Chromosome-level genome assembly of the black ant Formica fusca.Scientific data · 2025Article
- The alkenes Z9-CNature communications · 2025Article
- Queen fecundity, worker entourage and cuticular chemistry in the antProceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
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Abstract
Cooperative breeding entails conflicts over reproductive shares that may be settled in different ways. In ants, where several queens simultaneously reproduce in a colony, both queens and workers may influence the reproductive apportionment and offspring quality. Queens may vary in their intrinsic fecundity, which may influence the size of the worker entourage attending individual queens, and this may eventually dictate the reproductive output of a queen. We tested whether the reproductive success of queens is affected by the size of their worker entourage, their fecundity at the onset of the reproductive season, and whether the queen cuticular hydrocarbon profile carries information on fecundity. We show that in the ant
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