Queen dominance and worker policing cont
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JΓΌrgen Trettin; Monika Haubner; Alfred Buschinger; JΓΌrgen Heinze
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Article
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2011
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BioMed Central
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English
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## Background Efficient division of reproductive labor is a crucial characteristic of social insects and underlies their ecological and evolutionary success. Despite of the harmonious appearance of insect societies, nestmates may have different interests concerning the partitioning of reproduction