Kip Lacy
@mendelslols.bsky.social
Ph.D. student with Daniel Kronauer at The Rockefeller University
Thank you so much, Brendan!
February 1, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thank you so much, Brendan!
Also, the first paper from my Ph.D. demonstrated that clonal raider ants go to great lengths to avoid losses of heterozygosity (doi.org/10.1038/s415...). Heterozygosity-dependent due to complementary sex determination might help explain why.
Co-inheritance of recombined chromatids maintains heterozygosity in a parthenogenetic ant - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This study reports non-random segregation of chromosomes during meiosis in the clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi, but no loss of heterozygosity because crossover products are faithfully co-inherited.
doi.org
January 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Also, the first paper from my Ph.D. demonstrated that clonal raider ants go to great lengths to avoid losses of heterozygosity (doi.org/10.1038/s415...). Heterozygosity-dependent due to complementary sex determination might help explain why.