Nature versus nurture in social insect caste determination
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serval:BIB_7A2789C37C2D
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
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Title
Nature versus nurture in social insect caste determination
Journal
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
0169-5347
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2010
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
25
Number
5
Pages
275-282
Language
english
Abstract
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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