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Convergent genetic architecture underlies social organization in ants.

Current biology : CB - 17 Nov 2014

Purcell Jessica, Brelsford Alan, Wurm Yannick, Perrin Nicolas, Chapuisat Michel

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Complex adaptive polymorphisms are common in nature, but what mechanisms maintain the underlying favorable allelic combinations? The convergent evolution of polymorphic social organization in two independent ant species provides a great opportunity to investigate how genomes evolved under parallel selection. Here, we demonstrate that a large, nonrecombining "social chromosome" is associated with social...

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PMID: 25455032
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.071

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