oligogyne sp.

[Alexander]

I was looking into some campanotus sp that im interested in and i saw this:

Campanotus herculeanus and Ligniperdus colony form----Monogyne rarely oligogyne

Can someone explain what is oligogyne pls

[MorbidBugg]

can I get a link reference? oligogyne is a plant... perhaps autocorrect mistook it?

[Alexander]

https://www.antstore.net/shop/en/ants/Ants-from-Central-Europe/Camponotus-herculeanus.html

Here thats one of the examples

[MorbidBugg]

Yeah from the spelling mistakes and it being under colony form I think they just miss spelled polygynous.

Which is multiple queens per colony. Though I have only heard of a few wild examples of that happening it's always deadly in a home setup.

[TheRealAntMan]

Oligogene: a gene that produces or significantly affects the expression of a qualitative heritable characteristic, acting either alone or with a few other genes (from https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/oligogene) . Which basically is basically a gene that determines a phenotypic trait (such as size or behavior).

[MorbidBugg]

Oligogene: a gene that produces or significantly affects the expression of a qualitative heritable characteristic, acting either alone or with a few other genes (from https://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/oligogene) . Which basically is basically a gene that determines a phenotypic trait (such as size or behavior).

Eh neat, learned something new. Hahaand I see why I messed up gene not gyne

[Alexander]

thank you!!!!!