Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin

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Title
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin
Journal
Current Biology
Author(s)
Chapuisat Michel
ISSN
0960-9822
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Published
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2023
Volume
33
Number
6
Pages
R225-R228
Language
english
Abstract
Summary The sudden appearance of small winged queens within a lineage of asexually reproducing ant workers reveals that such social parasites can appear abruptly. The parasitic queens differ in a large genomic region, suggesting that a supergene instantly equipped the social parasite with a suite of co-adapted traits.
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