Assessment of queen mating frequency by
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Francis L.W. Ratnieks
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Article
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1990
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Worker Hymenoptera may increase their inclusive fitness by adopting facultative reproductive strategies that depend on assessment of queen mating frequency. An analysis of how workers might assess mating frequency, based on the diversity of colonymate sisters' odor phenotypes, is presented for a sin