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An invasive social insect overcomes genetic load at the sex locus

Hymenopteran social insects require heterozygosity at the csd locus for female development. Here, it is shown how balancing selection overcomes founder effects to maintain this heterozygosity and allow the Asian honeybee to become invasive.

Rosalyn Gloag
Guiling Ding
Benjamin P. Oldroyd
Research07 Nov 2016
Nature Ecology & Evolution

Volume: 1, P: 1-6
Serial founder effects slow range expansion in an invasive social insect

Invasive populations often have low genetic diversity because they originated from a small number of founding individuals. This study shows that in an invasive honey bee, one consequence of low genetic diversity is a reduced rate of population expansion due to serial founder effects at range edges.

Thomas Hagan
Guiling Ding
Rosalyn Gloag
ResearchOpen Access29 Apr 2024
Nature Communications

Volume: 15, P: 1-10
Large-scale gene losses underlie the genome evolution of parasitic plant Cuscuta australis

Dodders (Cuscuta spp., Convolvulaceae) are root- and leafless parasitic plants. Here, the authors sequence the genome of Cuscuta australis and find remarkable gene loss associated with parasitic lifestyle and large changes in body plan.

Guiling Sun
Yuxing Xu
Jianqiang Wu
ResearchOpen Access11 Jul 2018
Nature Communications

Volume: 9, P: 1-8
Global allele polymorphism indicates a high rate of allele genesis at a locus under balancing selection

Guiling Ding
Martin Hasselmann
Rosalyn Gloag
Research27 Aug 2020
Heredity

Volume: 126, P: 163-177