Red Fire Ants (IMAGE)

Queen Mary University of London

Red Fire Ants

Caption

This is a photograph of a Solenopsis invicta fire ant queen (large), five workers (smaller), one larva (whiteish) on a subset of the DNA sequence of their social chromosome.

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Credit: Romain Libbrecht and Yannick Wurm / QMUL

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Please credit Romain Libbrecht and Yannick Wurm / QMUL when using the image

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