Observatory: Tracing an Ant Invasion to a Handful of Queens
Wednesday, July 9, 2008 - 09:28
in Biology & Nature
New research suggests that just 9 to 20 unrelated red imported fire ant queens were responsible for the colonization of South American and the United States.
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