Evolutionary BiologybioRxiv
Does social antagonism facilitate supergene expansion? A novel region of suppressed recombination in a 4-haplotype supergene system.
G. Scarparo, M. Palanchon, A. Brelsford, J. Purcell
The paper investigates whether social antagonism drives supergene expansion in ants by identifying a novel region of suppressed recombination linked to queen size dimorphism.
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2023.10.049