Sex ratio conflicts, mating frequency, and queen fitness in the ant Formica truncorum
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral Ecology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1045-2249,1465-7279
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.2.116