Paternal effects on Apis mellifera capensis worker ovary size
| Autor: | Rebecca J. Reid, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Michael H. Allsopp, Madeleine Beekman, Emily J. Remnant |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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kinship theory
0301 basic medicine Genetics Entomology Reproductive success Apis mellifera capensis Offspring [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] fungi food and beverages Zoology Parthenogenesis Honey bee Biology 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology genomic conflict Insect Science Kinship imprinting Imprinting (psychology) Genomic imprinting |
| Zdroj: | Apidologie Apidologie, 2017, 48 (5), pp.660-665. ⟨10.1007/s13592-017-0510-x⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1297-9678 0044-8435 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s13592-017-0510-x |
| Popis: | International audience; AbstractThe kinship theory of genomic imprinting argues that conflicting reproductive interests between males and females can lead to epigenetic modifications to the genome, altering gene expression in offspring in a parent-of-origin specific manner. The phenomenon is well documented in mammals and angiosperms, while the evidence for imprinting in social insects is steadily increasing. Workers of the South African honey bee, Apis mellifera capensis (Capensis) produce fatherless female offspring via thelytokous parthenogenesis, whereas queens produce female eggs sexually. We examined differences in reproductive phenotype between thelytokously and sexually derived Capensis workers. Workers with a father had significantly more ovarioles than fatherless workers, suggesting that males may imprint genes to enhance the reproductive success of their worker offspring. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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