Haplodiploidy: the great evolutionary innovation of the Hymenoptera

单倍二倍体：膜翅目伟大的进化创新

• 批准号: DP180101696
• 负责人: Prof Benjamin Oldroyd
• 金额: $ 20.27万
• 依托单位: The University of Sydney
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP180101696
• 关键词: Haplodiploidy; great; evolutionary; innovation; Hymenoptera

This project aims to identify a key gene that causes thelytokous parthenogenesis. Thelytoky is the ability of a female to clone herself (virgin birth), and is wide spread in the Hymenoptera which include bees, wasps and ants. Hymenopteran thelytoky is important because it facilitates some major transitions in life history, particularly social parasitism. The capacity for virgin birth is central to the invasiveness of many ant species, and enables social cancers (parasitic workers that kill colonies) in bees. The benefit of this project is that the identification of the gene should help identify potentially invasive ant species and help prevent the social cancers that affect commercial beekeeping in South Africa from spreading world-wide.

本项目的目的是确定一个关键基因，导致thelytokous孤雌生殖。Thelytoky是女性克隆自己的能力（处女生育），广泛分布于包括蜜蜂，黄蜂和蚂蚁在内的Hypletera。海象的交配很重要，因为它促进了生活史中的一些重大转变，特别是社会寄生。处女生育的能力是许多蚂蚁物种入侵的核心，并使蜜蜂成为社会癌症（杀死殖民地的寄生工人）。 该项目的好处是，该基因的鉴定将有助于识别潜在的入侵蚂蚁物种，并有助于防止影响南非商业养蜂业的社会癌症在世界范围内蔓延。