The potential for gene flow in a dependent lineage system of a harvester ant: Fair meiosis in the f1 generation

Journal of Heredity

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 378-384

  Curry, Meghan M ^a   Wheeler, Diana E ^a   Yang, Kimberly ^a   Anderson, Kirk E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene flow; Pogonomyrmex; Postzygotic selection; Reproductive isolation; Symmetrical social hybridogenesis; Worker produced males

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTICLE; FERTILIZATION; GENE FLOW; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CHIMERA; CROSSES, GENETIC; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GENE FLOW; MALE; MEIOSIS; MODELS, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION;

POGONOMYRMEX;

EID: 77951675707     PISSN: 00221503     EISSN: 14657333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esp117     Document Type: Article

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