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Iberian combine ant is produced by offspring from two different species.
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Somehow, the Queen’s ants can mate with other types of men and clone them, making eggs from another species.
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It’s quite complicated, how it all works together.
The complex world of the animal kingdom just became a lot of wild. In new research showing that Iberian Harvester Queen ants can “lay individuals of two different species”.
Yes, you read that right. One ant is two species.
In a new study led by biologist Jonathan Romiguier of Monpelier University, and published in in NatureThe research team has shown how Ibericus harvest forces everything to happen.
“In this cycle of life, women need to clone other types of men because they require their sperm to receive the caste of an employee,” the authors wrote. “As a result, men from the same mothers have different genomes and morphologies because they belong to species that differed more than five million years ago.”
This process-a dozen, which it calls “xenoparas” means that the body gives birth to another species as part of its life cycle-is a “natural case of cross-species cloning, which only supports the male line cloned through the individual species”.
Colonies insects are already very high levels of complexity. The Queen functionally designs the colony makeup through her reproductive process. By fertilizing only some eggs when they lay them, she can produce a sterile woman (from fertilized eggs), other potential future queen (also from fertilized eggs, if they are given enough protein as larvae) and male ants (from unrepair of eggs). The female ants are diploid, which means they have two sets of chromosomes, and men have only one set, namely how unfeated a woman’s eggs can create male offspring.
Whatever strange (or, unfamiliar) – and attracted the research team M. Ibericus First of all, the fact that some employees are hybrids also have types of DNA DNA M. Structor; It would have been reasonably understood – the “intersecies” mating is not unheard of and ants (including M. Ibericus) is known to use the process – not because the closest M. Structor The colonies were more than 400 miles. The Queen should not have access to M. Structor DNA to create hybrid offspring.
During the study, the team dug up 50 nests in France, collecting 132 men out of 26 different Marcus ibard colonies. Half of them not only looked M. Structor ants but attracted nuclear genomes M. Structor and mitochondria Marcus ibardstating that mostM. Structor Of the men were hatched Marcus ibard Queens.
This prompted the investigators to complete M. Ibericus Queens clones M. Structor men. The sperm is allowed to peel the egg, but is removed before the egg is completely fertilized to prevent the egg to be not wasted. Theory is that M. Ibericus Queens clone M. Structor Men have sperm supply, then pair with clones to create hybrids that act as colony workers.
The biological details remain spotted, and although the ants are known to have cloning abilities, it was never seen that there are two different species involved.
Michael Goodisman, an evolutionary biologist at the Institute of Technology, who did not participate in a new study, said Science that the conclusions are “almost impossible to believe and make our understanding of evolutionary biology. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, social insects reveal another surprise.”
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