Prudent Protomognathus and despotic Leptothorax duloticus: Differential costs of ant slavery
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Prudent Protomognathus and despotic Leptothorax duloticus: differential costs of ant slavery.
The concept of ant slavery rests on the untested assumption that slave-making ants impose fitness costs on colonies of the species they raid. We tested that assumption by comparing the summertime seasonal productivity of Leptothorax spp. colonies in field exclosures without slavemakers, with a colony of the obligatory slave-making ant Protomognathus americanus, or with a colony of the obligator...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.201397998