Complex hybrid origin of genetic caste determination in harvester ants

Nature

Volumn 424, Issue 6946, 2003, Pages 306-309

  Cahan, Sara Helms ^a   Keller, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

CASTE DIFFERENTIATION;

INSECT CONTROL;

DNA;

ANT; CASTE; HYBRIDIZATION; KIN SELECTION; LABOR DIVISION; POPULATION GENETICS;

ANIMAL CASTE; ANT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; INSECT; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS BREEDING; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; POGONOMYRMEX; POGONOMYRMEX BARBATUS; POGONOMYRMEX RUGOSUS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0043205002     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01744     Document Type: Article

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