Canalized gene expression during development mediates caste differentiation in ants.

doi:10.1038/s41559-022-01884-y

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Canalized gene expression during development mediates caste differentiation in ants.

Nature ecology & evolution - 1 Nov 2022

Qiu Bitao, Dai Xueqin, Li Panyi, Larsen Rasmus Stenbak, Li Ruyan, Price Alivia Lee, Ding Guo, Texada Michael James, Zhang Xiafang, Zuo Dashuang, Gao Qionghua, Jiang Wei, Wen Tinggang, Pontieri Luigi, Guo Chunxue, Rewitz Kim, Li Qiye, Liu Weiwei, Boomsma Jacobus J, Zhang Guojie

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Ant colonies are higher-level organisms consisting of specialized reproductive and non-reproductive individuals that differentiate early in development, similar to germ-soma segregation in bilateral Metazoa. Analogous to diverging cell lines, developmental differentiation of individual ants has often been considered in epigenetic terms but the sets of genes that determine caste phenotypes throughout larval and...

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Animals
Female
Ants
Gene Expression Profiling
Larva
Phenotype
Transcriptome

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PMID: 36192540
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01884-y
PMCID: PMC9630140

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