Asexual queen succession in the higher termite Embiratermes neotenicus

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F15%3A10297438" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/15:10297438 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/61388963:_____/15:00445824
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0260" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0260</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0260" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2015.0260</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Asexual queen succession in the higher termite Embiratermes neotenicus
Original language description
Asexual queen succession (AQS), in which workers, soldiers and dispersing reproductives are produced sexually while numerous non-dispersing queens arise through thelytokous parthenogenesis, has recently been described in three species of lower termites of the genus Reticulitermes. Here, we show that AQS is not an oddity restricted to a single genus of lower termites, but a more widespread strategy occurring also in the most advanced termite group, the higher termites (Termitidae). We analysed the genetic structure in 10 colonies of the Neotropical higher termite Embiratermes neotenicus (Syntermitinae) using five newly developed polymorphic microsatellite loci. The colonies contained one primary king accompanied either by a single primary queen or by upto almost 200 neotenic queens. While the workers, the soldiers and most future dispersing reproductives were produced sexually, the non-dispersing neotenic queens originated through thelytokous parthenogenesis of the founding primary que
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EB - Genetics and molecular biology
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GA14-12774S" target="_blank" >GA14-12774S: Reproductive Regulation and Fertility Signalling in Higher Termites (Termitidae)</a><br>
Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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