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Linked supergenes underlie split sex ratio and social organization in an ant.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Nov 2021

Lagunas-Robles German, Purcell Jessica, Brelsford Alan

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Sexually reproducing organisms usually invest equally in male and female offspring. Deviations from this pattern have led researchers to new discoveries in the study of parent-offspring conflict, genomic conflict, and cooperative breeding. Some social insect species exhibit the unusual population-level pattern of split sex ratio, wherein some colonies specialize in the production of future queens and others...

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PMID: 34772805
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2101427118
PMCID: PMC8609651

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