Periodic Reporting for period 2 - RoyalMess (Evolutionary genomics of royalty in Messor hybridogenetic ants)

The RoyalMess project aims to understand why some ant larvae can become nearly sterile individuals with short lifespan (the worker caste) while others can develop as large hyper-fertile individuals that can live up to 30 years (the queen caste). Royalty in social insects is...