A gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites.
A major transition in evolution is the origin of a division between reproduction and work among individuals. Nowhere is this divide more striking than in social insects, where workers rarely produce offspring even though they are often capable of reproduction should the queen or king die. The molecu...
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| author | Korb, J Weil, T Hoffmann, K Foster, K Rehli, M |
| author_facet | Korb, J Weil, T Hoffmann, K Foster, K Rehli, M |
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| description | A major transition in evolution is the origin of a division between reproduction and work among individuals. Nowhere is this divide more striking than in social insects, where workers rarely produce offspring even though they are often capable of reproduction should the queen or king die. The molecular mechanisms that control worker reproduction remain largely unknown. We used a combination of behavioral assays and RNA interference (RNAi) to identify a gene required for the reproductive division of labor between the queen and the workers. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:7748343e-9bf5-4ef4-a699-2cd485a68c482022-03-26T20:22:52ZA gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:7748343e-9bf5-4ef4-a699-2cd485a68c48EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2009Korb, JWeil, THoffmann, KFoster, KRehli, MA major transition in evolution is the origin of a division between reproduction and work among individuals. Nowhere is this divide more striking than in social insects, where workers rarely produce offspring even though they are often capable of reproduction should the queen or king die. The molecular mechanisms that control worker reproduction remain largely unknown. We used a combination of behavioral assays and RNA interference (RNAi) to identify a gene required for the reproductive division of labor between the queen and the workers. |
| spellingShingle | Korb, J Weil, T Hoffmann, K Foster, K Rehli, M A gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites. |
| title | A gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites. |
| title_full | A gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites. |
| title_fullStr | A gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites. |
| title_full_unstemmed | A gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites. |
| title_short | A gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites. |
| title_sort | gene necessary for reproductive suppression in termites |
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