• DOI:10.1007/BF02515814
Corpus ID: 21948488

Ant reproductive strategies

@article{Heinze2006AntRS,
  title={Ant reproductive strategies},
  author={J. Heinze and K. Tsuji},
  journal={Researches on Population Ecology},
  year={2006},
  volume={37},
  pages={135-149}
}

J. Heinze, K. Tsuji

Published 2006

Biology

Researches on Population Ecology

In contrast to what is generally believed, the reproductive strategies of ants are remarkably diverse and include such different phenomena, as wingless female and male sexuals, reproduction by mated workers, thelytokous parthenogenesis, and complete workerlessness. We review the various reproductive life histories and investigate them in the light of recent models on the evolution of dispersal strategies and multiple-queening. It appears that most deviations from “normal” colony propagation can… CONTINUE READING

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