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Genetic caste determination in termites: out of the shade but not from Mars.

BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology - 1 Apr 2008

Crozier Ross H, Schlüns Helge

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Several ant species are known with genetic effects on caste determination but, for termites, the role of environment has been assumed to be omnipotent. Now Hayashi et al. report that commitment to the nymph and worker pathways in Reticulitermes speratus follows a simple model involving two alleles at a sex-linked locus. The spread of this system of genetic caste determination seems best explained by selection at...

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PMID: 18348158
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20732

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