A social rearrangement

Andrew F. G. Bourke () and Judith E. Mank ()
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Andrew F. G. Bourke: Andrew F. G. Bourke is in the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK.
Judith E. Mank: Evolution and Environment, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

Nature, 2013, vol. 493, issue 7434, 612-613

Abstract: Some worker fire ants will tolerate multiple queens in their colony, but others only one. It turns out that this behaviour is governed by a gene cluster on an unusual pair of chromosomes. Two scientists describe what these findings mean to the fields of social evolution, genetics and beyond. See Letter p.664

Date: 2013
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