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Army ants: an evolutionary bestseller?
1University of Wuerzburg, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, Am Hubland, 97074, Wuerzburg, Germany. S.Berghoff@web.de
Current Biology : CB
|September 6, 2003
Abstract:
Army ants are characterized by a complex combination of behavioral and morphological traits. Molecular data now indicate that army ant behavior has a unique evolutionary origin and has been conserved for over more than 100 million years.