Genes associated with ant social behavior show distinct transcriptional and evolutionary patterns

Shared genes related to aggression, rather than chemical communication, are associated with reproductive dominance in paper wasps (Polistes metricus)

(2014) Amy L Toth et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Accelerated Evolution of Morph-Biased Genes in Pea Aphids

(2014) Swapna R. Purandare et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Comparative Transcriptomics of Convergent Evolution: Different Genes but Conserved Pathways Underlie Caste Phenotypes across Lineages of Eusocial Insects

(2014) Ali J. Berens et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Large-Scale Coding Sequence Change Underlies the Evolution of Postdevelopmental Novelty in Honey Bees

(2014) William Cameron Jasper et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Population genomics of the honey bee reveals strong signatures of positive selection on worker traits

(2014) B. A. Harpur et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular heterochrony and the evolution of sociality in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)

(2014) S. H. Woodard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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Mechanisms and Dynamics of Orphan Gene Emergence in Insect Genomes

(2013) Lothar Wissler et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality

(2013) D. F. Simola et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The importance of genomic novelty in social evolution

(2013) Seirian Sumner   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Gene expression patterns associated with caste and reproductive status in ants: worker-specific genes are more derived than queen-specific ones

(2013) B. Feldmeyer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Molecular and social regulation of worker division of labour in fire ants

(2013) Fabio Manfredini et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The Hourglass and the Early Conservation Models—Co-Existing Patterns of Developmental Constraints in Vertebrates

(2013) Barbara Piasecka et al.   PLoS Genetics

TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

(2013) Daehwan Kim et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Transcriptome analyses of primitively eusocial wasps reveal novel insights into the evolution of sociality and the origin of alternative phenotypes

(2013) Pedro G Ferreira et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

ORIGINS OF ALTRUISM DIVERSITY II: RUNAWAY COEVOLUTION OF ALTRUISTIC STRATEGIES VIA “RECIPROCAL NICHE CONSTRUCTION”

(2012) J. David Van Dyken et al.   EVOLUTION

THE EFFECTS OF KIN SELECTION ON RATES OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION IN SOCIAL INSECTS

(2012) David W. Hall et al.   EVOLUTION

RUNAWAY SEXUAL SELECTION WITHOUT GENETIC CORRELATIONS: SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTS AND FLEXIBLE MATE CHOICE INITIATE AND ENHANCE THE FISHER PROCESS

(2012) Nathan W. Bailey et al.   EVOLUTION

Relaxed Genetic Constraint is Ancestral to the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity

(2012) Aaron R. Leichty et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Evolution at Two Levels in Fire Ants: The Relationship between Patterns of Gene Expression and Protein Sequence Evolution

(2012) B. G. Hunt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Comparing Statistical Methods for Constructing Large Scale Gene Networks

(2012) Jeffrey D. Allen et al.   PLoS One

Rapid Evolution of the Sequences and Gene Repertoires of Secreted Proteins in Bacteria

(2012) Teresa Nogueira et al.   PLoS One

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Identification of novel transcripts in annotated genomes using RNA-Seq

(2011) A. Roberts et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome

(2011) Bo Li et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Taxonomically restricted genes are associated with the evolution of sociality in the honey bee

(2011) Brian R Johnson et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The evolutionary origin of orphan genes

(2011) Diethard Tautz et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

ConDeTri - A Content Dependent Read Trimmer for Illumina Data

(2011) Linnéa Smeds et al.   PLoS One

Molecular evolutionary analyses of insect societies

(2011) B. J. Fischman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Relaxed selection is a precursor to the evolution of phenotypic plasticity

(2011) B. G. Hunt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Behavior-specific changes in transcriptional modules lead to distinct and predictable neurogenomic states

(2011) S. Chandrasekaran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genes involved in convergent evolution of eusociality in bees

(2011) S. H. Woodard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Kinship, greenbeards, and runaway social selection in the evolution of social insect cooperation

(2011) P. Nonacs   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Is My Network Module Preserved and Reproducible?

(2011) Peter Langfelder et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Low levels of nestmate discrimination despite high genetic differentiation in the invasive pharaoh ant

(2010) Anna M Schmidt et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Impact of Extracellularity on the Evolutionary Rate of Mammalian Proteins

(2010) Ben-Yang Liao et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Weighted Gene Coexpression Network Analysis: State of the Art

(2010) Wei Zhao et al.   Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Sociality Is Linked to Rates of Protein Evolution in a Highly Social Insect

(2010) B. G. Hunt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Brain transcriptomic analysis in paper wasps identifies genes associated with behaviour across social insect lineages

(2010) A. L. Toth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Deconstructing the Superorganism: Social Physiology, Groundplans, and Sociogenomics

(2010) Brian R. Johnson et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

(2009) M. D. Robinson et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

GENES WITH SOCIAL EFFECTS ARE EXPECTED TO HARBOR MORE SEQUENCE VARIATION WITHIN AND BETWEEN SPECIES

(2009) Timothy A. Linksvayer et al.   EVOLUTION

ABySS: A parallel assembler for short read sequence data

(2009) J. T. Simpson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The Correlation of Evolutionary Rate with Pathway Position in Plant Terpenoid Biosynthesis

(2009) Heather Ramsay et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Honey bee aggression supports a link between gene regulation and behavioral evolution

(2009) C. Alaux et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

More than just orphans: are taxonomically-restricted genes important in evolution?

(2009) Konstantin Khalturin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Evolutionary rates and centrality in the yeast gene regulatory network

(2009) Richard Jovelin et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

WGCNA: an R package for weighted correlation network analysis

(2008) Peter Langfelder et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

The evolution of genome size in ants

(2008) Neil D Tsutsui et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq

(2008) Ali Mortazavi et al.   NATURE METHODS

Assessing the gene space in draft genomes

(2008) Genis Parra et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Insulin signaling is involved in the regulation of worker division of labor in honey bee colonies

(2008) S. A. Ament et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rarity of Males in Pea Aphids Results in Mutational Decay

(2008) J. A. Brisson et al.   SCIENCE

Genes and Social Behavior

(2008) G. E. Robinson et al.   SCIENCE

Developmental Constraints on Vertebrate Genome Evolution

(2008) Julien Roux et al.   PLoS Genetics