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Potential cause of lethality of an allele implicated in social evolution in fire ants.
Genetica - 1 Sept 2007
Hallar Brittan L, Krieger Michael J B, Ross Kenneth G
Abstract excerpt
The gene Gp-9 is believed to have a major effect on colony social organization in fire ants, with the presence of b-like alleles in a colony associated with multiple-queen (polygyne) organization. Queens and workers of polygyne Solenopsis invicta homozygous for the b-like allele designated b suffer reduced viability compared to other genotypes, and bb queens do not survive to become egg-layers. Thus, the b allele...
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