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Fitness and the level of homozygosity in a social insect

Haag-Liautard, Cathy ; Vitikainen, E. ; Keller, Laurent ; Sundström, L.

In: Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2009, vol. 22, no. 1, p. 134 - 142

To date very few studies have addressed the effects of inbreeding in social Hymenoptera, perhaps because the costs of inbreeding are generally considered marginal owing to male haploidy whereby recessive deleterious alleles are strongly exposed to selection in males. Here, we present one of the first studies on the effects of queen and worker homozygosity on colony performance. In a wild...