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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Solenopsis invicta
SUBMITTER: Fabio Manfredini
PROVIDER: E-MEXP-3898 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Manfredini Fabio F Riba-Grognuz Oksana O Wurm Yannick Y Keller Laurent L Shoemaker DeWayne D Grozinger Christina M CM
PLoS genetics 20130808 8
One of the fundamental questions in biology is how cooperative and altruistic behaviors evolved. The majority of studies seeking to identify the genes regulating these behaviors have been performed in systems where behavioral and physiological differences are relatively fixed, such as in the honey bee. During colony founding in the monogyne (one queen per colony) social form of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta, newly-mated queens may start new colonies either individually (haplometrosis) or in gr ...[more]