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Table 8 Thresholds for a worker preventing another worker from replacing a queen's son with her own son (worker policing).

From: Theory of genomic imprinting conflict in social insects

 

(1) One queen, singly mated

(2) One queen, x mates

(3) q queens, singly mated

Non-imprinted

Patrigenic

0

0

0

Matrigenic

1

1

Patri. > Matri.

never

never

never

Maternal

2

2

  1. The numbers represent the benefit/cost ratio above which replacement is favored (expression 18), so low values favor replacement. Columns and rows as in Table 2.