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Table 9 Thresholds for favoring ones own matriline or patriline over another in the same colony.

From: Theory of genomic imprinting conflict in social insects

 

(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

  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.