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Don't lots of species store sperm? I see nothing too remarkable about a single individual being able to start a colony unless no species do store sperm.
by Brian_K_White 4y ago
Don't lots of species store sperm? I see nothing too remarkable about a single individual being able to start a colony unless no species do store sperm.
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- DoreenMichele 4y agoI have asked around. It appears you are correct.
- thaumasiotes 4y agoThere are other known ways of one individual being able to start a new population: - The simplest and most obvious way to do this is to be a clonal organism. - But you can go more complicated than that. You can have a female parthenogenetically give birth to males and then mate with those males. Aphids do this. (Actually, some cursory research suggests that aphids are more likely to give parthenogenetic birth to a batch of sons and daughters who then mate with each other?)
- ovi256 4y agoThat species from other families do it does not make it less remarkable that these are the only ant species to do it.