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| Title | Polyphenism in Pogonomyrmex ants: molecular mechanisms underlying caste determination and maternal effects on worker size |
| Author | Eléonore GENZONI |
| Director of thesis | Prof. Laurent Keller |
| Co-director of thesis | Prof. Tanja Schwander |
| Summary of thesis | Social insects are characterized by extreme phenotypic plasticity in which different phenotypes within the same colony can be produced depending on environmental conditions, despite the high level of genetic relatedness. I am interested in the distinctive worker sizes at different life stages, observed between colony founding stage and established colony, and particularly the potential maternal effect that could influence this phenotype. |
| Status | finished |
| Administrative delay for the defence | 2022 |
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