Nature versus nurture in social insect caste determination
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Etat: Public
Version: de l'auteur⸱e
ID Serval
serval:BIB_7A2789C37C2D
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Sous-type
Synthèse (review): revue aussi complète que possible des connaissances sur un sujet, rédigée à partir de l'analyse exhaustive des travaux publiés.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Nature versus nurture in social insect caste determination
Périodique
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
0169-5347
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
25
Numéro
5
Pages
275-282
Langue
anglais
Résumé
Recent evidence for genetic effects on royal and worker caste differentiation from diverse social insect taxa has put an end to the view that these phenotypes stem solely from a developmental switch controlled by environmental factors. Instead, the relative influences of genotypic and environmental effects on caste vary among species, ranging from largely environmentally controlled phenotypes to almost purely genetic systems. Disentangling the selective forces that generate variation for caste predisposition will require characterizing the genetic mechanisms underlying this variation, and identifying particular life-history strategies and kin structures associated with strong genetic effects on caste.
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