Genomic imprinting and kinship in the social Hymenoptera: what are the predictions?

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The kinship theory of genomic imprinting predicts that conflicts of interest between parents can promote the evolution of opposed expression patterns of maternally and paternally derived alleles in the offspring. The social Hymenoptera (ants, some bees, and some wasps) are particularly suitable to test this theory, because a variety of social conflicts are predicted due to relatedness asymmetries between female...

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