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Darwin's "neuters" and the evolution of the sex continuum in a superorganism
Jan Oettler, Tobias Wallner, Benjamin Dofka…·Eva Schultner
The paper identifies three phenotypic entities in ant embryos, including 'neuters', and proposes that haplodiploidy enables a third dimension on the sex continuum in Cardiocondyla obscurior.
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