Unexpected diversity of egg yolk proteins play a key role in ant sociality and castes

Tuesday, June 3, 2014 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

In the advanced online edition of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Claire Morandin et al. performed molecular evolutionary analyses on the egg yolk forming protein, Vitellogenin, and its many forms, amongst seven Formica ant species.

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