{"id":7509,"date":"2025-09-05T19:22:03","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/?p=7509"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:22:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:22:03","slug":"iberian-harvester-ant-queens-are-cloning-different-species-to-produce-hybrid-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/linkki\/7509","title":{"rendered":"<svg class=\"svg-icon svg-icon-link\" aria-labelledby=\"title-69d800a47d63d\" role=\"img\"><title id=\"title-69d800a47d63d\">Link<\/title> <use href=\"#link\" xlink:href=\"#link\"><\/use> <\/svg>7509"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-basic\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-09-iberian-harvester-ant-queens-cloning.html\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Iberian harvester ant queens are cloning different species to produce hybrid workers\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"72\" src=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/09\/iberian-harvester-ant.jpg\" class=\"attachment-150x999 size-150x999\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/09\/iberian-harvester-ant.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/09\/iberian-harvester-ant-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/09\/iberian-harvester-ant-1024x490.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/files\/2025\/09\/iberian-harvester-ant-768x367.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">Iberian harvester ant queens are cloning different species to produce hybrid workers<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">This new frontier in reproduction is referred to by the authors as \"xenoparous,\" meaning the ant queens have a need to produce individuals of another species as an inherent part of their life cycle. The exact developmental mechanism of cross-species male cloning is still unknown, but the authors have some theories.<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14097],"tags":[28603,3383,28531,14353],"class_list":["post-7509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-in-english","tag-ecology","tag-evolution","tag-genetics","tag-nature","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7511,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7509\/revisions\/7511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kettinki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}