Loss of males from mixed-sex societies in termites.
Toshihisa YashiroNathan LoKazuya KobayashiTomonari NozakiTaro FuchikawaNobuaki MizumotoYusuke NambaKenji MatsuuraPublished in: BMC biology (2018)
Our findings demonstrate that completely asexual social lineages can evolve from mixed-sex termite societies, providing evidence that males are dispensable for the maintenance of advanced animal societies in which they previously played an active social role.
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