Barely Significant
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Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants.

Nat Ecol Evol · 2024 · PMC7616618 · PMID 39187609

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However, we did find a negative relationship, which was close to significance, between number of queens per colony and queen mating frequency (Fig. 3d ; BPMM: β = −0.20, CI = −0.39 to 0.01, n species = 111, R 2 = 0.00).

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