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- who: Romain A. Dahan from the SchoolState University have published the research work: Multi-queen breeding is associated with the origin of inquiline social parasitism in ants, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
- what: The comparative analysis presented here reveals a significant association between secondary polygyny and being a host of an inquiline social parasite in ants, and becoming a host of a social parasite appears to be twice as likely in a polygynous species.
- future: Studies are necessary to evaluate whether these eight monogynous events truly represent social parasites that evolved . . .
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