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This project investigates the unique reproductive system of social hybridogenesis in ants, where distinct genetic lineages produce queens and workers differently. It employs genomic techniques to explore the evolution and genetic basis of caste determination in these insects.
Royalty in social insects is typically environmentally acquired rather than genetically determined.
However, this is not the case in an exceptional reproductive system, known as social hybridogenesis.
Here, two distinct royal lineages of ants can only produce queens by their own while they need to hybridize to produce workers.
Eggs with a pure royal genome are thus genetically fated to become queens while hybrid genomes are fated to become workers.
Convergent evolution toward such a baroque repr…
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