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Invited Commentary Seeing the forest and the trees
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| Author | Hellerb, Nicole E. Gordona, Deborah M. |
| Abstract | and others on supercolonies. We recognize the existence of Argentine ant supercolonies, populations of colonies all de-scended from common ancestors. A substantial body of work shows the common origins of certain Argentine ant popula-tions of colonies, or supercolonies (e.g., Vogel et al. 2010). We consider that a colony, unlike a supercolony, involves functional ecological interactions among the ants. A group of ants functions as a colony when it shares resources and reproduction. Heller et al. (2008) showed that nests share resources only at scales of about 100 m. Ingram and Gordon (2003) showed that there is isolation by distance, demonstrat-ing limited genetic mixing, also at scales of 100 m. These results indicate that there are colonies on the scale of 100 m at the study site in northern California. Ants that belong to the same supercolony have a shared ancestry, but if the supercol- |
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