Timecourse of gene expression after oprhaning of virgin Solenopsis invicta fire ant queens

ABSTRACT: In species with social hierarchies, the death of dominant individuals typically upheaves the social hierarchy and provides an opportunity for subordinate individuals to become reproductives. Such a phenomenon occurs in the monogyne form of the fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, where colonies typically contain a single wingless reproductive queen, thousands of workers and hundreds of winged non-reproductive virgin queens. Upon the death of the mother queen, many virgin queens shed their wings and initiate reproductive development instead of departing on a mating flight. Workers progressively execute almost all of them over the following weeks. To identify the molecular changes that occur in virgin queens as they perceive the loss of their mother queen and begin to compete for reproductive dom

ORGANISM(S): Solenopsis invicta

SUBMITTER: Yannick Wurm 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-19721 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress