ArticleBiology letters2018
Phenotypic plasticity in an ant with strong caste-genotype association.
Article in Biology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Static allometries of caste-associated traits vary with genotype but not environment in the clonal raider ant.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Innovation in ant larval feeding facilitated queen-worker divergence and social complexity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differentiation in ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Sex- and caste-specific developmental responses to juvenile hormone in an ant with maternal caste determination.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Phenomenon of reproductive plasticity in ants.Current opinion in insect science · 2024Review
- A caste differentiation mutant elucidates the evolution of socially parasitic ants.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- The evolution of caste-biasing symbionts in the social hymenoptera.Insectes sociaux · 2018Review
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Abstract
Caste determination in social Hymenoptera (whether a female egg develops into a reproductive queen or a sterile worker) is a remarkable example of phenotypic plasticity where females with highly similar genomes exhibit striking differences in morphology and behaviour. This phenotypic dichotomy is typically influenced by environmental factors. However, recent studies have revealed a strong caste-genotype association in hybridogenetic ants: workers are all interlineage hybrids while queens are all purebred, suggesting that female caste fate is genetically determined. Using the hybridogenetic ant
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