A study of ants provides information on the evolution of social insects

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Thanks for posting. Very interesting article.

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This ant species Ooceraea biroi is fascinating. Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps) generally reproduce genetically via haplodiploidy, where females have double set of chromosomes and males only a single set and there is usually only one egg-laying individual per colony (most hymenopterans are eusocial) - the queen. These little critturs, though eusocial, have no queen and no males.

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