Clonal reproduction and genetic caste differences in a queen-polymorphic ant, Vollenhovia emeryi

Ohkawara, Kyohsuke, Nakayama, Megumi, Satoh, Atsumi, Trindl, Andreas und Heinze, Jürgen (2006) Clonal reproduction and genetic caste differences in a queen-polymorphic ant, Vollenhovia emeryi. Biology letters 2 (3), S. 359-363.

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Most social Hymenoptera are characterized by simple haploid sex determination and environment-based caste differentiation. This appears to be strikingly different in the queen-polymorphic ant Vollenhovia emeryi. Almost all long- and short-winged queens from a population in Central Japan were homozygous at three microsatellite loci, whereas workers were mostly heterozygous, suggesting either a ...

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