Repeated evolution of queen parthenogenesis and social hybridogenesis in Cataglyphis desert ants.

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serval:BIB_45DD392A0E05
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Repeated evolution of queen parthenogenesis and social hybridogenesis in Cataglyphis desert ants.
Journal
Molecular ecology
Author(s)
Kuhn A., Darras H., Paknia O., Aron S.
ISSN
1365-294X (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0962-1083
Publication state
Published
Issued date
02/2020
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
29
Number
3
Pages
549-564
Language
english
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Publication types: Journal Article
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
Over the last decade, genetic studies on social insects have revealed a remarkable diversity of unusual reproductive strategies, such as male clonality, female clonality, and social hybridogenesis. In this context, Cataglyphis desert ants are useful models because of their unique reproductive systems. In several species, queens conditionally use sexual reproduction and parthenogenesis to produce sterile workers and reproductive queens, respectively. In social hybridogenesis, two distinct genetic lineages coexist within a population, and workers result from mating between partners of different lineages; in contrast, queens and males are both produced asexually by parthenogenesis. Consequently, nonreproductive workers are all interlineage hybrids, whereas reproductives are all pure lineage individuals. Here, we characterized the reproductive systems of 11 species to investigate the distribution of the conditional use of sex and social hybridogenesis in Cataglyphis. We identified one new case in which sexual reproduction was conditionally used in the absence of dependent-lineage reproduction. We also discovered five new instances of social hybridogenesis. Based on our phylogenetic analyses, we inferred that both the conditional use of sex and social hybridogenesis independently evolved multiple times in the genus Cataglyphis.
Keywords
Cataglyphis, ants, conditional use of sex, social hybridogenesis, Cataglyphis
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Web of science
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23/12/2020 7:24
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