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Male reproductive fitness and queen polyandry are linked to variation in the supergene Gp-9 in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Aug 2012

Lawson Lucinda P, Vander Meer Robert K, Shoemaker Dewayne

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Supergenes are clusters of tightly linked loci maintained in specific allelic combinations to facilitate co-segregation of genes governing adaptive phenotypes. In species where strong selection potentially operates at different levels (e.g. eusocial Hymenoptera), positive selection acting within a population to maintain specific allelic combinations in supergenes may have unexpected consequences for some...

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PMID: 22535783
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0315
PMCID: PMC3385716

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