BI308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Naked Mole-Rat
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When there is monogamy, you are closely related to siblings as you are to offspring. Naked mole rat example: burrow through dense soil and feed on tubers. Like termites, there is a reproductive male and female in colony. It"s the offspring and siblings who assist with colony duties. Male king and queen engage through urine, suppress the workers/helpers reproductive individuals. What makes them different from social insets, an individual has potential to become a queen or king. Some insects in larva stage are put on a permanent path of infertility. Three times the relatedness to sisters than to offspring ( r=0. 75 over 0. 25) (haploid dad) More closely related than siblings when both parents are diploid from queen = equal, she gains reproductive success from eggs from daughter and sperm from son. Conflict comes from worker and queen, the sex ratio between offspring produced in hive. This happens in monogamous queens video clip from friday: bees.
