Asymmetric assortative mating and queen polyandry are linked to a supergene controlling ant social organization
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Male reproductive fitness and queen polyandry are linked to variation in the supergene Gp-9 in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta.
Supergenes are clusters of tightly linked loci maintained in specific allelic combinations to facilitate co-segregation of genes governing adaptive phenotypes. In species where strong selection potentially operates at different levels (e.g. eusocial Hymenoptera), positive selection acting within a population to maintain specific allelic combinations in supergenes may have unexpected consequence...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Ecology
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0962-1083,1365-294X
DOI: 10.1111/mec.14793