Meiotic recombination dramatically decreased in thelytokous queens of the little fire ant and their sexually produced workers

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2591-2601

  Rey, Olivier ^a   Loiseau, Anne ^a   Facon, Benoit ^a   Foucaud, Julien ^a,b   Orivel, Jérôme ^c,d   Cornuet, Jean Marie ^a   Robert, Stéphanie ^a,e   Dobigny, Gauthier ^a,f   Delabie, Jacques Hubert Charles ^g   Mariano, Cléa Dos Santos Ferreria ^g   Estoup, Arnaud ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOLOGIE ET DE GESTION DES POPULATIONS   (France)

^b France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

^c Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e CIRAD   (France)

^f IRD   (Nigeria)

^g CEPEC/CEPLAC   (Brazil)

Author keywords

biological invasion; inbreeding; parthenogenesis; recombination; thelytoky; Wasmannia auropunctata

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANT; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CHROMOSOME; CLONAL VARIATION; DIPLOIDY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; HAPLOIDY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MEIOSIS; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; PARTHENOGENESIS; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; INBREEDING; MEIOSIS; PARTHENOGENESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

WASMANNIA AUROPUNCTATA;

EID: 79961061985     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msr082     Document Type: Article

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