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With the first warm days of spring or summer, after the first rains, unbridled ants are unleashed. Virgin queens go in search of one of the many males of their species who, in a synchronized manner, also leave their colonies. During this wedding flight, they copulate with all they can, accumulating their sperm. It will be the only time in their lives that they do it. Already in their colony, they will use it to create some young queen, a few mal…
Ant queens produce sons of two distinct species
The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle about a missing population of another ant species. The discovery of an unusual reproductive system for one ant species solves a long-standing puzzle about a missing population of another ant species.
The living has always seemed to follow a simple rule: an individual can only give birth to individuals of his own species. Yet, a recent discovery shows that this fundamental principle now suffers from an exception. In the harvester ants Messer ibericus, females have to produce individuals of two different species. In addition to...
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