Recurring adaptive introgression of a supergene variant that determines social organization
oleh: Eckart Stolle, Rodrigo Pracana, Federico López-Osorio, Marian K. Priebe, Gabriel Luis Hernández, Claudia Castillo-Carrillo, Maria Cristina Arias, Carolina Ivon Paris, Martin Bollazzi, Anurag Priyam, Yannick Wurm
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2022-03-01 |
Deskripsi
Solenopsis fire ants have a polymorphic social system in which some colonies have multiple queens. Here, Stolle, Pracana et al. show that the supergene that produces the multiple-queen phenotype has spread repeatedly between Solenopsis species by introgression.