Epistasis between adults and larvae underlies caste fate and fitness in a clonal ant

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Teseo, Serafino ^a,b   Châline, Nicolas ^a,c   Jaisson, Pierre ^a   Kronauer, Daniel J C ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b France and University of Paris Sud   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANT; CASTE; CLONAL ORGANISM; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; GENOTYPE; LARVA; SOCIAL INSECT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CLONE; COOPERATION; EPISTASIS; FITNESS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; INSECT CASTE; INSECT SOCIETY; LARVA; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PARASITISM; REPRODUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; LARVA;

EID: 84896845700     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4363     Document Type: Article

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