Intra-colony venom diversity contributes to maintaining eusociality in a cooperatively breeding ant

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• who: Samuel D. Robinson from the Adult workers of Rmetallica used for transcriptome sequencing and our main venom analyses were collected from a, m, area of lawn (and were assumed to be from a single colony) at The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia. Venom was collected from , R. metallica workers by holding the ant with a pair of forceps while allowing it to sting through a layer of parafilm covering the opening of a, .5-mL tube (Supplemental Video, ). Ants aggressively and repeatedly stung the parafilm layer presented, depositing, on most occasions, a small drop . . .
  

   

  

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