Nature Podcast cover image

A smarter way to melt down plastics?

Nature Podcast

00:00

The Genetic System of Yellow Crazy Ants

The male ants in this species are chimeras. They are a combination of two different lineages. Usually an unfertilised egg would become a male, and a fertilised Egg would become a queen or a worker. But what happens is the nuclei of these cells don't fuse together. So you get, you know, the one copy of the genome from the egg,. The one copy from the sperm, and you've got different cells with the different genomes in.

Transcript
Play full episode

The AI-powered Podcast Player

Save insights by tapping your headphones, chat with episodes, discover the best highlights - and more!
App store bannerPlay store banner
Get the app