Selfish strategies and honest signalling: reproductive conflicts in ant queen associations

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• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2010-07-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rspb.2009.2311PMID 20181562PMCID PMC2880094
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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