Social Organization Is Associated With Relaxed Selection on Worker Genes in Highly Polygyne Ants

ABSTRACT Ants display a diversity of social structures reflected by differences in caste, nest, and colony organization. Previous research has shown that highly eusocial insects (Hymenoptera) exhibit genome‐wide signatures of relaxed selection due to their smaller effective population sizes. However...

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Main Authors: Kailey Ferger, Neil D. Tsutsui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2025-07-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71696
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