Table 9

Thresholds for favoring ones own matriline or patriline over another in the same colony.

(1) One queen, n mates; favor females of own patriline

(2) q queens singly mated; favor own matriline


Non-imprinted

3

Patrigenic

Matrigenic

1

Patri. > Matri.

always

always

Maternal

1


The numbers represent the benefit/cost ratio above which discrimination is favored (expression 19). Low values favor more discrimination. Columns and rows as in Table 2.

Queller BMC Evolutionary Biology 2003 3:15   doi:10.1186/1471-2148-3-15

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