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Hybridogenesis through thelytokous parthenogenesis in two Cataglyphis desert ants.
Molecular ecology - 1 Feb 2013
Eyer P A, Leniaud L, Darras H, Aron S
Abstract excerpt
Hybridogenesis is a sexual reproductive system, whereby parents from different genetic origin hybridize. Both the maternal and paternal genomes are expressed in somatic tissues, but the paternal genome is systematically excluded from the germ line, which is therefore purely maternal. Recently, a unique case of hybridogenesis at a social level was reported in the desert ant Cataglyphis hispanica. All workers are...
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