Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first

Re:Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first by Brian_K_White on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:59AM (#35479309)

Don't lots of species store sperm? I see nothing too remarkable about a single individual being able to start a colony unless no species do store sperm.

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Re:Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first by DoreenMichele on Friday April 07, 2023 @04:10AM (#35479389)

I have asked around. It appears you are correct.

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Re:Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first by thaumasiotes on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:22AM (#35480086)

There are other known ways of one individual being able to start a new population:

- The simplest and most obvious way to do this is to be a clonal organism.

- But you can go more complicated than that. You can have a female parthenogenetically give birth to males and then mate with those males. Aphids do this. (Actually, some cursory research suggests that aphids are more likely to give parthenogenetic birth to a batch of sons and daughters who then mate with each other?)

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Re:Crazy ants’ strange genomes are a biological first by ovi256 on Friday April 07, 2023 @06:47AM (#35480224)

That species from other families do it does not make it less remarkable that these are the only ant species to do it.

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