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Joint Evolution of Asexuality and Queen Number in an Ant by Lacy, Kip D., Shoemaker, DeWayne, Ross, Kenneth G.

“…Ants exhibit a striking diversity of reproductive systems, varying in traits such as the number of reproductives per colony [1], the mode of daughter…”
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Species Delimitation: A Case Study in a Problematic Ant Taxon by Ross, Kenneth G, Gotzek, Dietrich, Ascunce, Marina S, Shoemaker, D. DeWayne

“…Species delimitation has been invigorated as a discipline in systematics by an influx of new character sets, analytical methods, and conceptual advances. We…”
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Genome-wide expression patterns and the genetic architecture of a fundamental social trait by Wang, John, Ross, Kenneth G, Keller, Laurent

“…Explaining how interactions between genes and the environment influence social behavior is a fundamental research goal, yet there is limited relevant…”
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Identification of a Major Gene Regulating Complex Social Behavior by Michael J. B. Krieger, Ross, Kenneth G.

“…Colony queen number, a major feature of social organization in fire ants, is associated with worker genotypes at the gene Gp-9. We sequenced Gp-9 and found…”
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GENETIC REGULATION OF COLONY SOCIAL ORGANIZATION IN FIRE ANTS: AN INTEGRATIVE OVERVIEW by Gotzek, Dietrich, Ross, Kenneth G.

“…Expression of colony social organization in fire ants appears to be under the control of a single Mendelian factor of large effect. Variation in colony queen…”
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Estimation of the number of founders of an invasive pest insect population: the fire ant Solenopsis invicta in the USA by Ross, Kenneth G, Shoemaker, D. DeWayne

“…occurred despite the loss of substantial genetic variation associated with the relatively small invasive propagule size, a pattern especially surprising in…”
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Current Status of a Model System: The Gene Gp-9 and Its Association with Social Organization in Fire Ants by Gotzek, Dietrich, Ross, Kenneth G

“…The Gp-9 gene in fire ants represents an important model system for studying the evolution of social organization in insects as well as a rich source of…”
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Radiation and hybridization underpin the spread of the fire ant social supergene by Helleu, Quentin, Roux, Camille, Ross, Kenneth G, Keller, Laurent

“…Supergenes are clusters of tightly linked genes that jointly produce complex phenotypes. Although widespread in nature, how such genomic elements are formed…”
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Species delimitation in native South American fire ants by Ross, K.G, Shoemaker, D.D

“…The taxonomy of fire ants has been plagued by difficulties in recognizing species on the basis of morphological characters. We surveyed allozyme markers and…”
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Unexpected patterns of segregation distortion at a selfish supergene in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta by Ross, Kenneth G, Shoemaker, DeWayne

“…The Sb supergene in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta determines the form of colony social organization, with colonies whose inhabitants bear the element…”
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Molecular variation at a candidate gene implicated in the regulation of fire ant social behavior by Gotzek, Dietrich, Shoemaker, D Dewayne, Ross, Kenneth G

“…The fire ant Solenopsis invicta and its close relatives display an important social polymorphism involving differences in colony queen number. Colonies are…”
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Characterization of Queen Supergene Pheromone in the Red Imported Fire Ant Using Worker Discrimination Assays by Zeng, Haolin, Millar, Jocelyn G., Chen, Li, Keller, Laurent, Ross, Kenneth G.

“…Ants use chemical signals to communicate for various purposes related to colony function. Social organization in the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta…”
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Global Invasion History of the Fire Ant Solenopsis invicta by Ascunce, Marina S, Yang, Chin-Cheng, Oakey, Jane, Calcaterra, Luis, Wu, Wen-Jer, Shih, Cheng-Jen, Goudet, Jérôme, Ross, Kenneth G, Shoemaker, DeWayne

“…The fire ant Solenopsis invicta is a significant pest that was inadvertently introduced into the southern United States almost a century ago and more recently…”
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Genetic control of social organization in an ant by Ross, K.G. (University of Georgia, Athens, GA.), Keller, L

“…A central issue in evolutionary biology is the extent to which complex social organization is under genetic control. We have found that a single genomic…”
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Effects of Wolbachia on mtDNA variation in two fire ant species by Shoemaker, D.D, Keller, G, Ross, K.G

“…Wolbachia are endosymbiotic bacteria that infect arthropods. As they are maternally transmitted, the spread of Wolbachia variants within host populations may…”
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Simple inheritance, complex regulation: Supergene‐mediated fire ant queen polymorphism by Arsenault, Samuel V., King, Joanie T., Kay, Sasha, Lacy, Kip D., Ross, Kenneth G., Hunt, Brendan G.

“…The fire ant Solenopsis invicta exists in two alternate social forms: monogyne nests contain a single reproductive queen and polygyne nests contain multiple…”
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Fitness effects of group merging in a social insect by Costa, James T., Ross, Kenneth G.

“…Animal social groups often consist of non–relatives, a condition that arises in many cases because of group merging. Although indirect fitness contributions…”
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Population Genetics of the Invasive Fire Ant Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the United States by Shoemaker, D. DeWayne, Deheer, Christopher J, Krieger, Michael J. B, Ross, Kenneth G

“…Analyses of population genetic variation in invasive species can provide information on the history of the invasions, breeding systems, and gene flow patterns…”
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Genetic analyses reveal cryptic diversity in the native North American fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Solenopsis) by Chialvo, PABLO, Gotzek, DIETRICH A, Shoemaker, DEWAYNE, Ross, KENNETH G

“…The native North American fire ants (Solenopsis Westwood) comprise a difficult group taxonomically that has undergone multiple revisions in the past century…”
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Effects of ploidy and sex-locus genotype on gene expression patterns in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta by Nipitwattanaphon, Mingkwan, Wang, John, Ross, Kenneth G., Riba-Grognuz, Oksana, Wurm, Yannick, Khurewathanakul, Chitsanu, Keller, Laurent

“…Males in many animal species differ greatly from females in morphology, physiology and behaviour. Ants, bees and wasps have a haplodiploid mechanism of sex…”
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