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Ant Queens Produce Offspring of Two Different Species, Stunning Scientists

Messor ibericus queens produce both their own and Messor structor males through androgenesis cloning to ensure mating options, a genetic adaptation in southern European ants.

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Some ant queens can produce offspring of more than one species – even when the other species is not known to exist in the nearby wild.

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Ant Queens Produce Offspring of Two Different Species, Stunning Scientists

Some ant queens can produce offspring of more than one species – even when the other species is not known to exist in the nearby wild.

·Australia
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Ant Queen Breaks the Rules of Biology by Producing Male Offspring That Are a Different Species

It seems "almost unimaginable," researchers say.

·Bucharest, Romania
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"Impossible To Imagine": Queen Ants Produce Babies Of 2 Different Species, And It's Never Been Seen Before

This is the first and only known species to do so.

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Ants: Same Mother and yet Different Species

Crazy Evolution: A European kind of ant clones males of another to exploit them. Why also use their own people for it?

·Heidelberg, Germany
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Ant Queen Clones the Males of a Foreign Species

There are living beings that can clone themselves again and again in nature. However, an ant queen surpasses all: she not only gets her own offspring, but also clones a strange speciesThe reproduction of ants is a complex undertaking: after mating, the queen lays both fertilized eggs from which workers hatch, and unfertilized eggs from which winged males develop. However, the harvest ant Messor ibericus drives the complexity to a new level – and…

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