Article
Genomic architecture and evolutionary antagonism drive allelic expression bias in the social supergene of red fire ants.
eLife - 10 Aug 2020
Martinez-Ruiz Carlos, Pracana Rodrigo, Stolle Eckart, Paris Carolina Ivon, Nichols Richard A, Wurm Yannick
Abstract excerpt
Supergene regions maintain alleles of multiple genes in tight linkage through suppressed recombination. Despite their importance in determining complex phenotypes, our empirical understanding of early supergene evolution is limited. Here we focus on the young 'social' supergene of fire ants, a powerful system for disentangling the effects of evolutionary antagonism and suppressed recombination. We hypothesize...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Ants
- Behavior, Animal
- Biological Evolution
- Chromosomes
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Expression
- Genomics
- Selection, Genetic
- Social Behavior