Social insects are among the most successful and ecologically important animals on earth. The lifestyle of these insects has fascinated humans since prehistoric times. These species evolved a caste of workers that in most cases have no progeny. Some social insects have worker sub-castes that are morphologically specialized for discrete tasks. The organization of the social insect colony has been compared to the metazoan body. Males in the order Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps) are haploid, a situation which results in higher relatedness between female siblings. Sociality evolved many times within the Hymenoptera, perhaps spurred in part by increased relatedness that increases inclusive fitness benefits to workers cooperating to raise thei...
Comparative genomics has begun to elucidate the genomic basis of social life in insects, but insight...
Although eusociality evolved independently within several orders of insects, research into the molec...
Ants are powerful model systems for the study of cooperation and sociality. In this review, we discu...
The evolution of sociality represented one of the major transition points in evolutionary history. W...
Highly social (eusocial) insects, in particular, comprise some of the most successful species on Ear...
Social insects are prominent model organisms of evolutionary biology. Their castes are an example of...
The study of insect social behavior has offered tremendous insight into the molecular mechanisms med...
A fundamental goal of evolutionary biology is to understand how novel traits arise. Eusociality repr...
Genomes of eusocial insects code for dramatic examples of phenotypic plasticity and social organizat...
An area of great interest in evolutionary genomics is whether convergently evolved traits are the re...
Social insects are ecologically dominant because of their specialized, cooperative castes. Reproduc...
Elucidating the molecular and neural basis of complex social behaviors such as communal living, divi...
BACKGROUND: Understanding how alternative phenotypes arise from the same genome is a major challenge...
Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) represent one of the most successful eusocial taxa in terms of both t...
International audienceThe evolution of reproductive division of labour and social life in social ins...
Comparative genomics has begun to elucidate the genomic basis of social life in insects, but insight...
Although eusociality evolved independently within several orders of insects, research into the molec...
Ants are powerful model systems for the study of cooperation and sociality. In this review, we discu...
The evolution of sociality represented one of the major transition points in evolutionary history. W...
Highly social (eusocial) insects, in particular, comprise some of the most successful species on Ear...
Social insects are prominent model organisms of evolutionary biology. Their castes are an example of...
The study of insect social behavior has offered tremendous insight into the molecular mechanisms med...
A fundamental goal of evolutionary biology is to understand how novel traits arise. Eusociality repr...
Genomes of eusocial insects code for dramatic examples of phenotypic plasticity and social organizat...
An area of great interest in evolutionary genomics is whether convergently evolved traits are the re...
Social insects are ecologically dominant because of their specialized, cooperative castes. Reproduc...
Elucidating the molecular and neural basis of complex social behaviors such as communal living, divi...
BACKGROUND: Understanding how alternative phenotypes arise from the same genome is a major challenge...
Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) represent one of the most successful eusocial taxa in terms of both t...
International audienceThe evolution of reproductive division of labour and social life in social ins...
Comparative genomics has begun to elucidate the genomic basis of social life in insects, but insight...
Although eusociality evolved independently within several orders of insects, research into the molec...
Ants are powerful model systems for the study of cooperation and sociality. In this review, we discu...