Intra-colony venom diversity contributes to maintaining eusociality in a cooperatively breeding ant

Intra-colony venom diversity contributes to maintaining eusociality in a cooperatively breeding ant

Abstract Background Eusociality is widely considered to evolve through kin selection, where the reproductive success of an individual’s close relative is favored at the expense of its own. High genetic relatedness is thus considered a prerequisite for eusociality. While ants are textbook examples of...

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Main Authors: Samuel D. Robinson, Vanessa Schendel, Christina I. Schroeder, Sarah Moen, Alexander Mueller, Andrew A. Walker, Naomi McKinnon, G. Gregory Neely, Irina Vetter, Glenn F. King, Eivind A. B. Undheim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-01-01
Series:BMC Biology
Subjects:
Formicidae
Kin selection
Group selection
Eusocial
Peptide
Toxin
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01507-9

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01507-9

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