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@article{Queller2000UnrelatedHI,
  title={Unrelated helpers in a social insect},
  author={David C. Queller and Francesca Zacchi and Rita Cervo and Stefano Turillazzi and Michael Thomas Henshaw and Lorenzo A Santorelli and Joan E. Strassmann},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2000},
  volume={405},
  pages={784-787},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4340200}
}

Microsatellite markers are used to reveal an unexpected and unique social system in what is probably the best-studied social wasp, Polistes dominulus, which is functionally unlike other social insects, but similar to certain vertebrate societies, in which the unrelated helpers gain through inheritance of a territory or a mate.

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