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One tree, many colonies: colony structure, breeding system and colonization events of host trees in tunnelling Melissotarsus ants

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  • 1. Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, 2143 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-2143, USA
  • 2. Institut d'Écologie et des Sciences de l'Environnement, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Paris 75005, France

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Eyer, Pierre-André, Vargo, Edward L., Peeters, Christian (2021): One tree, many colonies: colony structure, breeding system and colonization events of host trees in tunnelling Melissotarsus ants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133: 237-248, DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab026

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