No evidence for social immunity in co-founding queen associations

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• who: Timothamp#x000E9 and colleagues from the Queen sampling and experimental colony foundingThe black garden ant L. niger is a common European species that nests in the soil. The species is strictly monogynous: all mature colonies are headed by one reproductive queen2. After the nuptial flight, queens shed their wings and are found by hundreds roaming on the ground, searching for a nest site. The queens initiate new colonies without assistance from workers (independent colony founding). Pleometrosis is facultative, with, % of incipient colonies having multiple queens in a field population, and each pleometrotic nest containing two to . . .
  

   

  

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