EPIGENETIC FACTORS. “Queens and workers are different phenotypes arising from the same genome … whether an individual becomes a queen or worker depends on how it responds to environmental stimuli at critical periods in caste determination, rather than genotypic differences. Phenotypic variation exhibited by castes therefore usually arises through differential expression of shared genes.”
https://lnkd.in/d42MTRa
linkedin post 2022-06-29 05:12:48
Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022