Colony Foundation in Leafcutting Ants: The Perils of Polygyny in Atta Laevigata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
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عنوان ژورنال: Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0033-2615,1687-7438
DOI: 10.1155/1991/71624