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Radiation and hybridization underpin the spread of the fire ant social supergene

Supergenes are clusters of tightly linked genes that jointly produce complex phenotypes. Although widespread in nature, how such genomic elements are formed and how they spread are in most cases unclear. In the fire ant Solenopsis invicta and closely related species, a “social supergene controls whe...

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Autores principales: Helleu, Quentin, Roux, Camille, Ross, Kenneth G., Keller, Laurent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Academy of Sciences 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9407637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35969752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201040119