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Marking experiments with the tracer isotopes P32 and I131 and other behaviour experiments on ant males (Camponotus andFormica) showed that the males live during the imaginal life in several phases: I = social phase; II = rest phase; III = sexual phase; IV = death phase.
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Hölldobler, B. Untersuchungen zum Verhalten der Ameisenmännchen während der imaginalen Lebenszeit. Experientia 20, 329–330 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02171079
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