Tuesday, August 3, 2010

"Biased Transmission of Genomes According to Parents of Origin"

Laurent Keller on recent PNAS paper re sex-biased inheritance in ants:

A new study shows that wood ant queens selectively pass the maternally-inherited half of their genome to their daughters and the paternally-inherited half to their sons. This system, which most likely evolved from ancestral hybridization, creates distinct genetic lineages.

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