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Social life: the paradox of multiple-queen colonies
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- Authors
- Keller, L.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1995-09
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 355-360
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1973437732
- Cited by
- 268
- References
- 27
- FWCI
- 1.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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