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Evolution: no-male's land for an Amazonian ant.

Denis Fournier1, Serge Aron.   

Abstract

Recent work has shown that, in the Amazonian fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus smithii, queens use exclusively asexual reproduction and the male sex seems to have disappeared from the species. This finding illustrates the remarkable diversity of reproductive systems in ants.

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Year:  2009        PMID： 19906574     DOI： 10.1016/j.cub.2009.07.021

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Curr Biol        ISSN： 0960-9822            Impact factor:   10.834


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1.  Ant queens adjust egg fertilization to benefit from both sexual and asexual reproduction.

Authors:  S Aron; I Timmermans; M Pearcy
Journal:  Biol Lett       Date:  2011-02-09       Impact factor: 3.703

2.  Facultative asexual reproduction and genetic diversity of populations in the humivorous termite Cavitermes tuberosus.

Authors:  Denis Fournier; Simon Hellemans; Robert Hanus; Yves Roisin
Journal:  Proc Biol Sci       Date:  2016-06-15       Impact factor: 5.349

3.  Decay of homologous chromosome pairs and discovery of males in the thelytokous fungus-growing ant Mycocepurus smithii.

Authors:  Luísa Antônia Campos Barros; Christian Rabeling; Gisele Amaro Teixeira; Cléa Dos Santos Ferreira Mariano; Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie; Hilton Jeferson Alves Cardoso de Aguiar
Journal:  Sci Rep       Date:  2022-03-22       Impact factor: 4.379
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