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Workerless inquiline ant

Pogonomyrmex colei

Classification

Class
Insecta

Pogonomyrmex colei is a species of workerless inquiline ant in the subfamily Myrmicinae native to California, Nevada, and Arizona that parasitizes Pogonomyrmex rugosus nests. Biology The genome of Pogonomyrmex colei was sequenced for a study examining how this and other parasitic ants with no worker caste may have altered their genome to arrive at a workerless state. In comparison to ants with a full complement of castes, there appeared to be no loss of genes in the parasitic ants.

Distribution

(c) Gordon C. Snelling, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1