Evidence for a conserved queen-worker genetic toolkit across slave-making ants and their ant hosts
B. Feldmeyer, C. Gstoettl, J. Wallner, E. Jongepier, A. Seguret, A. Grasso, E. Bornberg-Bauer, S. Foitzik, J. Heinze
The paper shows that queen-worker gene expression differences are more consistent across ant species than lifestyle differences, supporting a conserved genetic toolkit for caste determination.
bioRxiv · Oct 20, 2021Evolutionary Biology