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

Biology letters - 22 Sept 2006

Ohkawara Kyohsuke, Nakayama Megumi, Satoh Atsumi, Trindl Andreas, Heinze Jürgen

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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 complex system of...

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PMID: 17148403
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0491
PMCID: PMC1686177

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