On the Robustness of Split Sex Ratio Pre
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Francis L.W. Ratnieks; Jacobus J. Boomsma
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Using inclusive fitness models, this study determines the optimal patterns of split-sex-ratio allocation for hymenopteran workers when colonies have a single queen, and queens mate with either one or two males. This particular colony kin-structure is common in social Hymenoptera. Importantly, the ba