Multilevel genetic analyses of two European supercolonies of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile.

@article{Jaquiry2005MultilevelGA,
  title={Multilevel genetic analyses of two European supercolonies of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile.},
  author={Julie Jaqui{\'e}ry and Valerie M Vogel and Laurent Keller},
  journal={Molecular ecology},
  year={2005},
  volume={14 2},
  pages={
          589-98
        }
}

• Julie Jaquiéry, Valerie M Vogel, Laurent Keller
• Published 2005 in Molecular ecology

Some ants have an extraordinary unicolonial social organization, whereby individuals mix freely among physically separated nests. Recently, it was shown that the European population of Linepithema humile consisted of two enormous unicolonial supercolonies. Workers of the same supercolony are never aggressive to each other. In contrast, aggressiveness is invariably high between workers from different supercolonies. Here we investigated whether gene flow occurs between two supercolonies. We… CONTINUE READING

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