The genomic consequences and persistence of sociality in spiders
J. Ma, J. Bechsgaard, A. Aagaard, P. Villesen, T. Bilde, M. Schierup
This study investigates the genomic consequences of sociality in spiders, finding that transitions to sociality lead to reduced effective population size and genomic diversity, potentially causing extinction.
bioRxiv · Apr 22, 2024Evolutionary Biology