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Genetic regulation of colony social organization in fire ants: an integrative overview.

The Quarterly review of biology - 1 Sept 2007

Gotzek Dietrich, Ross Kenneth G

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Expression of colony social organization in fire ants appears to be under the control of a single Mendelian factor of large effect. Variation in colony queen number in Solenopsis invicta and its relatives is associated with allelic variation at the gene Gp-9, but not with variation at other unlinked genes; workers regulate queen identity and number on the basis of Gp-9 genotypic compatibility. Nongenetic factors,...

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PMID: 17937246
DOI: 10.1086/519965

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