Titre
Simple genetic basis for important social traits in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Auteur(s)
Ross, K. G.
Auteure/Auteur
Vargo, E. L.
Auteure/Auteur
Keller, L.
Auteure/Auteur
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ISSN
0014-3820
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
1996-12
Volume
50
Numéro
6
Première page
2387
Dernière page/numéro d’article
2399
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Notes
Wb946 Times Cited:15 Cited References Count:79 --- Old month value: Dec
Résumé
Variation in queen phenotype and reproductive role in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta has been shown to have a simple genetic basis in a single introduced population in the United States. The evidence consists of an association between this variation and queen genotype at Pgm-3, a phosphoglucomutase-encoding gene. In the present study, we surveyed Pgm-3 allele and genotype frequencies in diverse populations from the native and introduced ranges of this ant to learn whether this simple genetic basis for reproductive traits is a general feature of the species or a genetic anomaly in introduced ants stemming from a recent bottleneck or the invasion of novel habitats. No egg-laying queens living in polygyne (multiple-queen) nests possessed the homozygous genotype Pgm-3(a/a) in any of the study populations, yet nonreproductive females from such nests (workers as well as queens that had not yet initiated oogenesis) possessed this genotype at moderate frequencies. Remarkably, Pgm-3(a/a) was the most common genotype among all classes of females, including egg-laying queens, in monogyne (single-queen) nests from all populations studied. Genotype proportions at Pgm-3 in polygyne populations typically departed strongly from the proportions expected under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, whereas those in monogyne populations did not. These patterns establish that a single mendelian gene influences queen reproductive role in S. invicta and that this gene uniformly is under strong directional selection in the polygyne social form only. Moreover, the perfect association of Pgm-3 genotype and reproductive role in all populations, combined with the known function of phosphoglucomutase in insect metabolism, suggest that this gene may directly influence queen phenotypes rather than merely serving as a marker for a linked gene that causes the effects.
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serval:BIB_2D1C130A4A03
Date de création
2008-01-24T17:40:01.799Z
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2025-05-20T20:41:06Z
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BIB_2D1C130A4A03.P001.pdf
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preprint
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Adobe PDF
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serval:BIB_2D1C130A4A03.P001
URN
urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_2D1C130A4A038
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