All worker ants — the ones you see marching around in lines, collecting food, or even digging the tunnels in your ant farm — are females, too And these workers will never have. “it’s weird to have any parent that’s only producing one sex or the other,” explained jessica purcell, an entomologist at the university of california riverside (ucr) A new study led by purcell reveals that female ants carry two copies of a sex determining chromosome while males carry only one copy. Researchers have been investigating the molecular mechanisms responsible for determining sex in ants Although the vast majority of an ant colony consists of female workers, males are essential to.
Every ant colony consists of a queen and distinct male and female roles Five key differences exist between male and female ants Males are haploid, developing from unfertilized eggs, whereas females are. However, a few ant species may generate female progeny parthenogenetically
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