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.
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:
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