Neither Worker, Nor Queen: An Ant Caste Specialized in the Production of Unfertilized Eggs

In addition to a queen and workers, colonies of the ant Crematogaster smithi Creighton from Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona, may contain one or several conspicuous “large workers” whose size, external morphology, and number of ovarioles are intermediate between that of queens on one side and that of w...

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Main Authors: J. Heinze, S. P. Cover, B. Hölldobler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 1995-01-01
Series:Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1995/65249
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