Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are ...
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Tiny Creature Defies Science As It Can Give Birth to Two Different Species of Offspring
The strange reproductive trait in these ants was discovered by the scientists after more than five years of extensive ...
Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on its head: The ...
Scientists discover that a queen ants of the Messor genus produce males from another species to breed hybrid workers in ...
Queen Iberian harvester ants are capable of storing and cloning the sperm from a cousin species, spawning hybrid offspring to ...
The Messor ibericus is, as its name suggests, native to the Iberian Peninsula. But its colonies are found across the entire ...
The researchers even coined a word for it, xenoparity, meaning “foreign birth”. It pushes the boundaries of what we mean by ...
Somehow, queen ants can mate with males of another species and clone them, producing eggs from another species entirely.
Iberian harvester ant queens produce offspring of their own species and of the builder harvester ant, seemingly by cloning ...
It might sound like a lab experiment, one of those ethically questionable studies where researchers toy with cloning and crossbreeding different species to ...
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