Hybridization enables the fixation of selfish queen genotypes in eusocial colonies

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• who: Arthur Weyna and colleagues from the InstitutUniversity of, Montpellier, France have published the article: Hybridization enables the fixation of selfish queen genotypes in eusocial colonies, in the Journal: (JOURNAL)
• what: The authors investigate the effects of a notable yet understudied ecological setting: where larvae produced by hybridization develop into sterile workers. Using mathematical modeling, the authors show that the coevolution of hybridization with caste determination readily triggers an evolutionary arms race between nonhybrid larvae that increasingly develop into queens, and queens that increasingly hybridize to produce workers. Specifically, the authors assume that the probability . . .
  

   

  

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