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Yellow crazy ants get their name from the helter-skelter movements they make after a disturbance.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01002-3
Correction 18 April 2023: The original version of this story mistakenly indicated that the cells of queen crazy yellow ants have two copies of the W genome. In fact, they carry two copies of the R genome.
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