Alternative Genetic Foundations for a Key Social Polymorphism in Fire Ants

Genetics

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1853-1867

  Ross, Kenneth G ^a   Krieger, Michael J B ^a   DeWayne Shoemaker, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; ANTS; CARRIER PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; INSECT PROTEINS; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS);

FORMICIDAE; INSECTA; SOLENOPSIS; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; SOLENOPSIS RICHTERI;

EID: 0347991986     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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