Kip Lacy
@mendelslols.bsky.social
Ph.D. student with Daniel Kronauer at The Rockefeller University
Thank you so much, Brendan!
February 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thank you so much, Brendan!
Also, the first paper from my Ph.D. demonstrated that clonal raider ants go to great lengths to avoid losses of heterozygosity (doi.org/10.1038/s415...). Heterozygosity-dependent due to complementary sex determination might help explain why.
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study reports non-random segregation of chromosomes during meiosis in the clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi, but no loss of heterozygosity because crossover products are faithfully co-inherited.
doi.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Also, the first paper from my Ph.D. demonstrated that clonal raider ants go to great lengths to avoid losses of heterozygosity (doi.org/10.1038/s415...). Heterozygosity-dependent due to complementary sex determination might help explain why.
More work will need to be done to figure out the mechanisms involved, but with these new studies, we are beginning to learn more about the evolutionary patterns of CSD in ants. For example, the tra-homolog containing locus that was mapped in Vollenhovia was not found in either other ant species. 👀
January 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
More work will need to be done to figure out the mechanisms involved, but with these new studies, we are beginning to learn more about the evolutionary patterns of CSD in ants. For example, the tra-homolog containing locus that was mapped in Vollenhovia was not found in either other ant species. 👀