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Old soldiers never die ....

Jacobus J Boomsma1, Sanne Nygaard.   

Abstract

An ancestral supersoldier phenotype of Pheidole ants can be recovered when selection for supersoldiers re-emerges, indicating that the developmental potential for caste pathways is retained.

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Year:  2012        PMID： 22356770      PMCID： PMC3334560          DOI： 10.1186/gb4000

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Genome Biol        ISSN： 1474-7596            Impact factor:   13.583


  6 in total

1.  A morphologically specialized soldier caste improves colony defense in a neotropical eusocial bee.

Authors:  Christoph Grüter; Cristiano Menezes; Vera L Imperatriz-Fonseca; Francis L W Ratnieks
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2012-01-09       Impact factor: 11.205

2.  Ancestral developmental potential facilitates parallel evolution in ants.

Authors:  Rajendhran Rajakumar; Diego San Mauro; Michiel B Dijkstra; Ming H Huang; Diana E Wheeler; Francois Hiou-Tim; Abderrahman Khila; Michael Cournoyea; Ehab Abouheif
Journal:  Science       Date:  2012-01-06       Impact factor: 47.728

3.  The evolution of worker caste diversity in social insects.

Authors:  Else J Fjerdingstad; Ross H Crozier
Journal:  Am Nat       Date:  2006-01-30       Impact factor: 3.926

Review 4.  The genomic impact of 100 million years of social evolution in seven ant species.

Authors:  Jürgen Gadau; Martin Helmkampf; Sanne Nygaard; Julien Roux; Daniel F Simola; Chris R Smith; Garret Suen; Yannick Wurm; Christopher D Smith
Journal:  Trends Genet       Date:  2011-10-05       Impact factor: 11.639

5.  Genetic royal cheats in leaf-cutting ant societies.

Authors:  William O H Hughes; Jacobus J Boomsma
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2008-03-13       Impact factor: 11.205

6.  Wasp gene expression supports an evolutionary link between maternal behavior and eusociality.

Authors:  Amy L Toth; Kranthi Varala; Thomas C Newman; Fernando E Miguez; Stephen K Hutchison; David A Willoughby; Jan Fredrik Simons; Michael Egholm; James H Hunt; Matthew E Hudson; Gene E Robinson
Journal:  Science       Date:  2007-09-27       Impact factor: 47.728
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