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Cryptic recessive lethality of a supergene controlling social organization in ants.
Molecular ecology - 1 Mar 2023
Blacher Pierre, De Gasperin Ornela, Grasso Guglielmo, Sarton-Lohéac Solenn, Allemann Roxane, Chapuisat Michel
Abstract excerpt
Supergenes are clusters of linked loci that control complex phenotypes, such as alternative forms of social organization in ants. Explaining the long-term maintenance of supergenes is challenging, particularly when the derived haplotype lacks homozygous lethality and causes gene drive. In the Alpine silver ant, Formica selysi, a large and ancient social supergene with two haplotypes, M and P, controls colony...
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