Article
Monogamy and haplodiploidy act in synergy to promote the evolution of eusociality.
Nature communications - 19 Jul 2011
Fromhage Lutz, Kokko Hanna
Abstract excerpt
In eusocial species, some individuals sacrifice their own reproduction for the benefit of others. The evolutionary transition towards eusociality may have been facilitated by ancestral species having a monogamous mating system (the monogamy hypothesis) or a haplodiploid genetic system (the haplodiploidy hypothesis), or it may have been entirely driven by other (ecological) factors. Here we show, using a model...
Topics
- Animals
- Biological Evolution
- Female
- Fertility
- Genotype
- Insecta
- Male
- Models, Biological
- Ploidies
- Sexual Behavior, Animal
- Social Behavior