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Special thanks to the members of the Order of Saint Benedict and 
the Laboratory of Ecology, University of Brasilia. Both authors 
thank Barbara L. Thorne, Alan E. Mill, James F. A. Traniello and 
Bert Holldobler for reading and criticizing the manuscript. 
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