John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellowship Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2021 Feb;36(2):100-103. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.11.010. Epub 2020 Dec 15.
Classic models for the development and evolution of ant castes struggle to explain recent empirical results. Here, we propose an hourglass model compatible with all existing data, providing a formal, falsifiable framework for future study. This illustrates how phenotypic variation can be used to infer underlying developmental and genetic architecture.
经典的蚂蚁品级发育和进化模型难以解释最近的实证结果。在这里,我们提出了一个与所有现有数据兼容的沙漏模型,为未来的研究提供了一个正式的、可证伪的框架。这说明了如何利用表型变异来推断潜在的发育和遗传结构。