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European ant is the first known animal to clone members of another species
A species of ant found scurrying across southern Europe is the first animal found that clones males of another species.
(Image credit: Jonathan Romiguier, Yannick Juvé and Laurent Soldati)To avoid this, queens must use sperm from male M. structor ants to produce their workers. Denis Fournier, an evolutionary biologist and ecologist at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, who was not involved in the research, said that it was "almost like science fiction" when he first learned of this discovery. Most of us learn that species boundaries are firm, yet here is a system where ants regularly cross them as part of normal life," he told Live Science in an email.
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