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One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature (www.nature.com)
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In a case of obligate cross-species cloning, female ants of Messor ibericus need to clone males of Messor structor to obtain sperm for producing the worker caste, resulting in males from the same mother having distinct genomes and morphologies.

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