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Comptes Rendus
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Supergene, sex and sociality
Laurent Keller1
1 Faculté de biologie et médecine, Département d’écologie et évolution, Groupe Keller, Lausanne University, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
Comptes Rendus. Biologies, Insects: Friends, foes, and models / Insectes : amis, ennemis et modèles, Volume 342 (2019) no. 7-8, p. 258.

Abstract

Intraspecific variability in social organization is common, yet the underlying causes are rarely known. I will show that the existence of two divergent forms of social organization in six ant species is under the control of a pair of heteromorphic chromosomes that have many of the key properties of sex chromosomes. In particular, this social chromosome contains a large (13 megabases) region in which recombination is completely suppressed via three large inversions (Fig. 1). These findings highlight how genomic rearrangements can maintain divergent adaptive social phenotypes involving many genes acting together by locally limiting recombination.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2019.09.011

Laurent Keller 1

1 Faculté de biologie et médecine, Département d’écologie et évolution, Groupe Keller, Lausanne University, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland 
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Laurent Keller. Supergene, sex and sociality. Comptes Rendus. Biologies, Insects: Friends, foes, and models / Insectes : amis, ennemis et modèles, Volume 342 (2019) no. 7-8, p. 258. doi : 10.1016/j.crvi.2019.09.011. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/articles/10.1016/j.crvi.2019.09.011/

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