A Unique Conjunction: Evidence for Gynogenesis Accompanying Haplodiploid Sex Determination in the Australian Ant Myrmecia impaternata Taylor

Myrmecia impaternata is an allodiploid all-female species of hybrid origin. Its parental taxa are confirmed here to be M. banksi and M. pilosula. We suggest that its queens produce diploid female offspring by gynogenetic parthenogenesis, a process which requires interaction between unreduced materna...

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Main Authors: Robert W. Taylor, Hirotami T. Imai, Eisuke Hasegawa, Colin D. Beaton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-01-01
Series:Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2832690
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