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Someone explain this better for me? (ant hybridogenesis)

Started By Socalfireants , May 22 2017 10:16 AM

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#1 Offline Socalfireants - Posted May 22 2017 - 10:16 AM

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http://rspb.royalsoc.../1774/20132396

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#2 Offline Martialis - Posted May 22 2017 - 10:21 AM

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#3 Offline Spamdy - Posted May 22 2017 - 12:22 PM

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same

All my colonies are dead.

Except:

Pogonomyrmex barbatus

Pheidole obscurithorax

Pheidole morens

#4 Offline Martialis - Posted May 23 2017 - 10:43 AM

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From what I understand through my own research, this exists in all hymenopterans to an extent.

As most of us know, bees, wasps, and ants all use the haploid/diploid sex determination system, with males being haploid and gynes(queens) and workers being female. Hybridogenesis is a form of reproduction in which an organism discards a genome of the opposite sex and uses its own to create offspring. In most hymenopterans, this would be the queen or female wasp/bee/ant not using the sexually obtained male genome and using only its own. This would be a haploid creature which would be male.