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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2023

Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin.

Michel Chapuisat

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Larger colony sizes favour greater division of labour between queens and workers in ants.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Michel ChapuisatDepartment of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Electronic address: michel.chapuisat@unil.ch.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The sudden appearance of small winged queens within a lineage of asexually reproducing ant workers reveals that such social parasites can appear abruptly. The parasitic queens differ in a large genomic region, suggesting that a supergene instantly equipped the social parasite with a suite of co-adapted traits.

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AntsParasitesAnimalsGenomicsPhenotypeSocial Behavior

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