Sociogenomics of cooperation and conflict during colony founding in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta.

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 b...

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Main Authors: Fabio Manfredini, Oksana Riba-Grognuz, Yannick Wurm, Laurent Keller, DeWayne Shoemaker, Christina M Grozinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3738511?pdf=render