Reproductive cooperation between queens and their mated workers: the complex life history of an ant with a valuable nest.

The life history of Harpegnathos saltator is exceptional among ants because both queens and workers reproduce sexually. Recently mated queens start new colonies alone, but later some of the offspring workers also become inseminated and take over the egg-laying role. This alternation seems associated with the existence of very complex underground nests, which are designed to survive floods. Longevity of ponerine queens is low (a consequence of limited caste dimorphism in this "primitive" subfamily), and upon the death of an H. saltator foundress, the nest represents a substantial investment. The queen's progeny should thus be strongly selected to retain the valuable nests. Unlike the flying queens, the workers copulate with males from their own colonies, and, thus, their offspring are expected to be highly related to the foundress. Colony fission appears not to occur because a daughter fragment would lack an adequate nest for protection. Thus, the annual production of queens in colonies with reproductive workers remains essential for the establishment of new colonies. This contrasts with various other ponerine species in which the queens no longer exist.

Queens Borough : being a descriptive and illustrated book of the borough of Qeens, city of Greater New York, setting forth its many advantages and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to work and succeed ... /

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Queens Borough; being a descriptive and illustrated book of the borough of Queens, city of Greater New York, setting forth its many advantages and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to work and succeed ... Issued by the Manufacturing and industrial committee of the Chamber of commerce of the borough of Queens;

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Two Theban queens, Nefert-ari and Ty-ti, and their tomba,

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The charters of the city of London, which have been granted by the kings and queens of England since the conquest.

Compiled by John Evelyn (not the diarist) cf. Brit. mus. Catalogue.

An account of the ceremonies observed in the coronations of the kings and queens of England : viz. King James II and his royal consort, King William III and Queen Mary, Queen Anne, King George I, and King George II and Queen Caroline.

In anticipation of the coronation of King George III.

Lives of the queens of Scotland and English princesses connected with the regal succession of Great Britain.

Mode of access: Internet.

Catalog and price list of bees, queens, beekeepers' supplies... also embracing lessons in profitable bee-keeping,

Mode of access: Internet.

A report on the progress of efficiency work in the borough of Queens during the year 1912.

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The Queens : being passages from the lives of Elizabeth, queen of England, and Mary, queen of Scotland /

At head of title: "The first proofs," with words in an unknown alphabet. "We claim that this literary work is of the same mind that formerly composed and wrote the immortal works now known as those of William Shakespeare. Our Brotherhood has collected the most remote history of the world in the highest spiritual study, to satisfy the truth of immortality."--Introduction (translated.).

The queens of Egypt /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The rival queens : a story of the modern stage /

Wolff, R.L. l9th cent. fiction,

Memoirs of the queens of France. Including a memoir of Her Majesty, the late queen of the French (Marie Amelie).

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Lives of the queens of England, from the Norman conquest;

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Researches on cobalt and cobalt alloys, conducted at Queens university, Kingston, Ontario, for the Mines branch of the Department of mines.

"No. 259, 309, 334, 411, 413."