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OUT OF RIDER HAGGARD'S SHE. "In Teleutomyrmex schneideri...not only has the entire worker caste been eliminated, but the brain, glands and feeding apparatus have also been reduced. The parasitic Teleutomyrmex queen spends much of her life riding on the back of the host queen while being fed by the workers of the host species.” If this was a horror movie you would not believe it. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29774232?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents View in LinkedIn

SLAVE REBELLION. "Slave ‘nannies’ will sometimes turn homicidal on their charges – something that never happens when they tend to their own young. In what’s being labelled variously as an evolutionary resistance to enslavement or a downright act of rebellion, captured worker ants will allow slavemaker young to die through neglect (dumping them in a corner and allowing mould to overcome them) or even consuming them once they reach the pupal stage." https://lnkd.in/dJrQzst View in LinkedIn

BAIT AND SWITCH. "As every ant in the colony is ‘programmed’ to obey the every whim of their queen, the colony becomes in time nothing but a proxy for the slavemaker race, as all workers are forced to care for the new brood of masters that the queen hatches. Unknowingly, they will dutifully and carefully tend to the seeds of their own demise." https://lnkd.in/dJrQzst View in LinkedIn

INFILTRATION. "In certain species, an even more insidious technique is used. During the chaos of the raid, a young slavemaker queen will infiltrate the target colony and kill the queen. Having completed this act of matronly regicide, she will then ‘impersonate’ the queen by consuming the pheromones still present in her rivals’ dead body." https://lnkd.in/dJrQzst View in LinkedIn

INSECT OTTOMANS. "Slavemaker ants will carry off all the eggs they can get their mandibles on and bring them back to their own nest. Just as the Ottoman empire once captured the young of their Christian enemies, raising them to be loyal Muslim citizens, so the young of the slave species are raised to be loyal to the their new colony." https://lnkd.in/dJrQzst View in LinkedIn

DUAL PURPOSE MESSAGES. "While the siege is underway, slavemaker workers of certain species possessing extremely swollen Dufour glands will spread their ‘propaganda’ amongst the enemy – chemicals that convince them to disperse, while continuing to incite the battle-frenzy amongst the attackers." https://lnkd.in/dJrQzst View in LinkedIn

"A FUNDAMENTAL TENET of classical mendelian genetics is that allelic information is stably inherited from one generation to the next, resulting in predictable segregation patterns of differing alleles." https://lnkd.in/dQPBBj4 View in LinkedIn

NON-MENDELIAN INHERITANCE. "Researchers have identified more than 5,000 genetically inherited human diseases and abnormalities. As we learn more about the inheritance patterns for these traits, it is becoming clear that at least some of the twelve exceptions to the simple Mendelian rules of inheritance described here are, in fact, relatively common. It would not be surprising if other "exceptions" were discovered in the future." https://lnkd.in/dU9C5cY View in LinkedIn

MENDELIAN EXCEPTIONS. "There are many situation where the progeny phenotypes do not match the Mendelian principles. The non-Mendelian inheritance pattern plays a role in several processes of diseases." https://lnkd.in/dNPTzz9 View in LinkedIn

ODDITY. "We're trying to discover patterns in what seems to be chaos," says Charles Fenster, evolutionary biologist at the University of Maryland. "This interesting example is a departure from the known laws, but my guess is that it doesn't explain the vast majority of how genes are transmitted from generation to generation - the reason why individuals resemble each other. That's really the key issue, why individuals that are relatives resemble each other. That's why people are interested in genetics in the first place." https://lnkd.in/dv6b49K View in LinkedIn