Mating biology of the leaf-cutting ants
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Boris Baer; Jacobus J. Boomsma
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Copulation behavior has often been shaped by sexually selected sperm competition or cryptic female choice. However, manipulation of previously deposited ejaculates is unknown in the social Hymenoptera and the degree to which sperm competes after insemination or is actively selected by females has re