ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2022
Unbalanced selection: the challenge of maintaining a social polymorphism when a supergene is selfish.
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- Ancient but dynamic: structural expansion, massive gene duplication, and transposable element colonization in a supergene controlling ant social organization.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- The loss of a supergene in obligately polygynous Formica wood ant species.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- A Comprehensive Account of the Breeding Systems of the Fire AntEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- A supergene-controlling social structure in Alpine ants also affects the dispersal ability and fecundity of each sex.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Social antagonism facilitates supergene expansion in ants.Current biology : CB · 2023Article
- Unbalanced selection: the challenge of maintaining a social polymorphism when a supergene is selfish.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Mutation accumulation opposes polymorphism: supergenes and the curious case of balanced lethals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Genomic architecture of supergenes: connecting form and function.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Iterative evolution of supergene-based social polymorphism in ants.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
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Abstract
Supergenes often have multiple phenotypic effects, including unexpected detrimental ones, because recombination suppression maintains associations among co-adapted alleles but also allows the accumulation of recessive deleterious mutations and selfish genetic elements. Yet, supergenes often persist over long evolutionary periods. How are such polymorphisms maintained in the face of selection, drive and drift? We present a population genetic model that investigates the conditions necessary for a stable polymorphic equilibrium when one of the supergene haplotypes is a selfish genetic element. The model fits the characteristics of the Alpine silver ant,
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