Highlights•Ant invasion success is undeniably linked to polygyny and the formation of
supercolonies.•The link between many reproductives, supercolonies and invasion success …

Highlights•Complementary sex determination leads to inbreeding costs in social
Hymenoptera.•Traits preserving sex locus diversity after founder events increase invasive …

Background Intraspecific variation in foraging niche can drive food web dynamics and
ecosystem processes. In particular, male and female animals can exhibit different, often …

Honey bees (Apis spp.) are important pollinators in many natural and agro-ecosystems
across the world. Effective means of surveying wild populations are therefore key to their …

Invasive populations often have lower genetic diversity relative to the native-range
populations from which they derive. 1, 2 Despite this, many biological invaders succeed in …

Invasive populations often experience founder effects: a loss of genetic diversity relative to
the source population, due to a small number of founders. Even where these founder effects …

When selection favours rare alleles over common ones (balancing selection in the form of
negative frequency-dependent selection), a locus may maintain a large number of alleles …

Previous experimental studies demonstrated that small drones (SD) had lower paternity
share since they were not successful in mating with queens as large drones (LD) in the …

Simple Summary In honey bees, males are haploid while females are diploid, leading to a
fundamental difference in genetic materials between the sexes. In order to better control the …

Despite the mitochondrion's long‐recognized role in energy production, mitochondrial DNA
(mtDNA) variation commonly found in natural populations was assumed to be effectively …