The reproductive biology of fire ant societies: Fire ant females have many and varied reproductive options

BioScience

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 593-605

  Tschinkel, Walter R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031873995     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313419     Document Type: Article

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