Convergent genetic architecture underlies social organization in ants

Current Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 2728-2732

  Purcell, Jessica ^a   Brelsford, Alan ^a   Wurm, Yannick ^b   Perrin, Nicolas ^a   Chapuisat, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMICA SELYSI; FORMICIDAE; SOLENOPSIS GEMINATA; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA;

INSECT PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; CHROMOSOME; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHROMOSOMES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, INSECT; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HAPLOTYPES; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; INSECT PROTEINS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84920987920     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.09.071     Document Type: Article

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