Fig. 2: M. ibericus queens lay males from two different species.
From: One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants
M. ibericus queens lay males belonging to different species that differ morphologically (symbolized by male symbols in blue and red for M. ibericus an M. structor, respectively) and genetically. M. ibericus and M. structor males produce sperm for producing either new queens or workers, respectively. All share the same mitochondria (corresponding to the M. ibericus mitochondria, depicted here in blue; Extended Data Fig. 2). a, M. ibericus male photo (hairy). b, M. structor male photo (hairless). c, Phylogenetic tree of 223 non-hybrid individuals. Based on 5,656 nuclear genes (2,780,573 bp) and simplified from Extended Data Fig. 1. All represented nodes have maximal bootstrap support (100). Triangle widths are relative to the number of individuals. Branch lengths are relative to divergence time estimated from Fig. 1 and Extended Data Fig. 4 (see Methods for details). Scale bars, 1 mm. Credit: The top picture of an ant is adapted with permission from a photo from Flickr (https://www.flickr.com) taken by M. Kukla. bp, base pairs.
