Genetics: biased transmission of genomes according to parents of origin.
A new study shows that wood ant queens selectively pass the maternally-inherited half of their genome to their daughters and the paternally-inherited half to their sons. This system, which most likely evolved from ancestral hybridization, creates distinct genetic lineages.
Keller
Laurent
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Department of Ecology and Evolution, Biophore, University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Laurent.Keller@unil.ch
D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000235:genetics*; D020090:Chromosome Segregation / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005828:Genetics, Population; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics*; D040582:Inheritance Patterns / Q000235:genetics*; D012737:Sex Factors