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Support for the reproductive ground plan hypothesis of social evolution and major QTL for ovary traits of Africanized worker honey bees ( Apis mellifera L.) by Allie M Graham; Michael D Munday; Osman Kaftanoglu; Robert E Page; Gro V Amdam; Olav Rueppell is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background The reproductive ground plan hypothesis of social evolution suggests that reproductive controls of a solitary ancestor have been co-opted during social evolution, facilitating the division of labor among social insect workers. Despite substantial empirical support, the generality of this hypothesis is not universally accepted. Thus, we investigated the prediction of particular genes with pleiotropic effects on ovarian traits and social behavior in worker honey bees as a stringent test of the reproductive ground plan hypothesis. We complemented these tests with a comprehensive genome scan for additional quantitative trait loci (QTL) to gain a better understanding of the genetic architecture of the ovary size of honey bee workers, a morphological trait that is significant for understanding social insect caste evolution and general insect biology. ## Results Back-crossing hybrid European x Africanized honey bee queens to the Africanized parent colony generated two study populations with extraordinarily large worker ovaries. Despite the transgressive ovary phenotypes, several previously mapped QTL for social foraging behavior demonstrated ovary size effects, confirming th
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- Author
- Allie M Graham; Michael D Munday; Osman Kaftanoglu; Robert E Page; Gro V Amdam; Olav Rueppell
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1471-2148)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)