Effect of body size on aggression in the
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Elise Nowbahari; RenΓ©e FΓ©nΓ©ron; Marie-Claire Malherbe
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Article
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1999
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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In polymorphic ants, such as Cataglyphis niger, sterile individual workers from the same nest show some degree of variation in size and/or morphology. We studied whether worker size and size difference between opponents had an effect on aggression during conspecific encounters. Although the capacity