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The colony structures of social insects vary greatly among species. In ant societies, the number of queens within a colony is variable during colony maturation. We investigated the social structure of a polygynous ant Crematogaster osakensis in a series of field and laboratory experiments. First, the initial colonies headed by multiple queens were found in the field. In laboratory experiments, queens...
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