Ant queens mate on a single occasion early in life and store millions of sperm cells in their spermatheca. By carefully using stored sperm to fertilize eggs, they can produce large colonies of thousan
First 10 phylogenetic principal components (PPCs) for all taxa included in the study and for both phylogenentic PCA analyses (i.e. with Dinilysia as a stem alethinophidian and as a stem ophidia
