The loss of a supergene in obligately polygynous Formica wood ant species
Hanna Sigeman, Ina Satokangas, Matthieu De Lamarre, Patrick Krapf, Pierre Nouhaud, Riddhi Deshmukh, Heikki Helanterä, Michel Chapuisat, Jonna Kulmuni, Lumi Viljakainen
The paper investigates the loss of a supergene haplotype in obligately polygynous Formica ants using comparative genomics and finds that the derived haplotype P is absent in two species except for duplicated paralogs of specific genes.
Molecular Biology and Evolution · Nov 28, 2025Peer-reviewedGenomics