Queen and Workers Red Fire Ants (IMAGE)

Queen Mary University of London

Queen and Workers Red Fire Ants

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This shows a Solenopsis invicta fire ant queen (large), five workers (smaller), one larva (whiteish) on a subset of the DNA sequence of their social chromosome. More photos can be found here: http://goo.gl/HDqCB

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Credit: Romain Libbrecht and Yannick Wurm

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