Ancestral developmental potential facilitates parallel evolution in ants

Science

Volumn 335, Issue 6064, 2012, Pages 79-82

  Rajakumar, Rajendhran ^a   San Mauro, Diego ^a,c   Dijkstra, Michiel B ^a,d   Huang, Ming H ^b   Wheeler, Diana E ^b   Hiou Tim, Francois ^a   Khila, Abderrahman ^a,e   Cournoyea, Michael ^a,f   Abouheif, Ehab ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ANT; CASTE SYSTEM; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORMONE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETICS; SOLDIER CASTE; WORKER CASTE;

ANT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT DEVELOPMENT; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PHEIDOLE; PHEIDOLE MORRISI; PHEIDOLE OBTUSOSPINOSA; PHEIDOLE RHEA; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FORMICIDAE; PHEIDOLE;

EID: 84855515046     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1211451     Document Type: Article

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