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Molecular variation at a candidate gene implicated in the regulation of fire ant social behavior.

PloS one - 7 Nov 2007

Gotzek Dietrich, Shoemaker D Dewayne, Ross Kenneth G

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The fire ant Solenopsis invicta and its close relatives display an important social polymorphism involving differences in colony queen number. Colonies are headed by either a single reproductive queen (monogyne form) or multiple queens (polygyne form). This variation in social organization is associated with variation at the gene Gp-9, with monogyne colonies harboring only B-like allelic variants and polygyne...

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PMID: 17987107
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001088
PMCID: PMC2043488

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