Non–nest mate discrimination and clonal colony structure in the parthenogenetic ant Cerapachys biroi
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Daniel J.C. Kronauer,a,b,c Kazuki Tsuji,d Naomi E. Pierce,a and Laurent Kellerc aMuseum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA, bLaboratory of Insect Social Evolution, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA, cDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland, and dDepartment of AgroEnvironmental Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 9030213, Japan
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