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Authors: | Feldmeyer, Barbara Elsner, D. Alleman, Austin Foitzik, Susanne |
Title: | Species-specific genes under selection characterize the co-evolution of slavemaker and host lifestyles |
Online publication date: | 6-Oct-2022 |
Year of first publication: | 2017 |
Language: | english |
Abstract: | The transition to a parasitic lifestyle entails comprehensive changes to the selective regime. In parasites, genes encoding for traits that facilitate host detection, exploitation and transmission should be under selection. Slavemaking ants are social parasites that exploit the altruistic behaviour of their hosts by stealing heterospecific host brood during raids, which afterwards serve as slaves in slavemaker nests. Here we search for evidence of selection in the transcriptomes of three slavemaker species and three closely related hosts. We expected selection on genes underlying recognition and raiding or defense behaviour. Analyses of selective forces in species with a slavemaker or host lifestyle allowed investigation into whether or not repeated instances of slavemaker evolution share the same genetic basis. |
DDC: | 570 Biowissenschaften 570 Life sciences |
Institution: | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Department: | FB 10 Biologie |
Place: | Mainz |
ROR: | https://ror.org/023b0x485 |
DOI: | http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-7891 |
Version: | Published version |
Publication type: | Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
License: | CC BY |
Information on rights of use: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Journal: | BMC evolutionary biology 17 |
Pages or article number: | Art. 237 |
Publisher: | BioMed Central |
Publisher place: | London |
Issue date: | 2017 |
ISSN: | 1471-2148 |
Publisher URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-017-1078-9 |
Publisher DOI: | 10.1186/s12862-017-1078-9 |
Appears in collections: | DFG-OA-Publizieren (2012 - 2017) |
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