AT THE BRINK OF SUPERCOLONIALITY: GENETIC, BEHAVIORAL AND CHEMICAL ASSESSMENTS OF POPULATION STRUCTURE OF THE DESERT ANT CATAGLYPHIS NIGER

At the brink of supercoloniality: genetic, behavioral and chemical assessments of population structure of the desert ant Cataglyphis niger

The nesting habits of ants play an important role in structuring ant populations.They vary from monodomy, a colony occupies a single nest, via polydomy, a colony occupies multiple adjacent nests, to supercoloniality, a colony spans over large territories comprising dozen to thousands nests without having any boundaries.The population structure of t

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