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This project investigates the genetic mechanisms underlying social behavior in insect colonies, particularly focusing on genomic imprinting in fungus-growing ants. It aims to understand how these mechanisms influence social organization and evolution.
The colonies of eusocial insects (ants, bees, wasps, termites) are second in complexity only to human societies.
They evolved by natural selection, in contrast to human sociality which has mostly cultural elements.
In addition, insect societies have reproductive division of labor between sterile workers and fertile queens, a form of specialization that resembles germ-line and somatic cell differentiation in metazoan bodies.
Social evolution theory increasingly understands the origin and elaborat…
KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
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