The Origin and Evolution of Polymorphism in Ants

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• Publication year

  1953

• Venue

  The Quarterly review of biology

• Publication date

  1953-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1086/399512PMID 13074471
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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